Patent ID: 7606503

Claim:
A pulse signal demodulation device for receiving a pulse signal converted into an optical signal via an optical transmission channel, and demodulating the pulse signal, comprising: an optical-to-electrical conversion section for converting the received optical signal into an electrical signal, and outputting the electrical signal as a received signal; a reception waveform information calculating section for outputting, as reception waveform information, information about a shape of a waveform of the pulse signal on which a distortion occurring during the time from when the pulse signal is converted to the optical signal to when the optical signal is converted into the received signal by the optical-to-electrical conversion section, is reflected; a template signal generating section for generating a template signal which has a waveform on which a distortion similar to the distortion occurring in the received signal is reflected, and is in synchronization with the received signal, based on the reception waveform information output from the reception waveform information calculating section and a synchronization signal which is in synchronization with the received signal; and a correlation section for demodulating the pulse signal by obtaining a correlation between waveforms of the received signal output from the optical-to-electrical conversion section and the template signal generated by the template signal generating section, wherein the reception waveform information calculating section outputs, as reception waveform information, amplitudes and phases of a frequency component corresponding to an integral multiple of a peak frequency of a spectrum of the pulse signal, and the peak frequency component, in the distortion occurring in the pulse signal, and the template signal generating section includes: a plurality of sine wave generating sections for generating a sine wave signal having the peak frequency and a sine wave signal having a frequency which is an integral multiple of the peak frequency; a plurality of amplitude/phase adjusting sections for adjusting amplitudes and phases of the sine wave signals generated by the plurality of sine wave generating sections, based on the reception waveform information; and a wave combining section for combining the sine wave signals having the amplitudes and the phases adjusted by the plurality of amplitude/phase adjusting sections.