| 摘要 |
A high-speed optical network (10) is provided wherein transmitters (12) and receivers (14) operate under the control of an appropriate controller without the requirement for low-speed optical-electrical-optical (OEO) conversion devices. Through the use of appropriate multiplexing schemes and device controls, optical data signals are sent from transmitters to receivers without the requirement for intermediate address decoding and the concomitant signal regeneration necessitated by the use of low-speed OEO devices. Further provided are transparent optical data receivers which under appropriate control detect high-speed optical data with minimal or no diminution of the optical intensity of the underlying data signal. A transparent optical receiver may be utilized by removing a portion of the coating and cladding of an optic fiber and inserting the optical receiver at that location. Operating alone or with the receivers, the optical network (10) of the present invention facilitates long-haul as well as local optical data transmission with minimal or no use of low-speed OEO devices and data signal regeneration, and can be further used to provide an alternate path for delivering large bandwidth data requested over electronic networks such as the Internet.
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