AN OPTICAL BROADCAST NETWORK

摘要

An optical braodcast network comprises a number of remote stations (5) connected to a node (1) by optical fibre transmission paths (2,4) interconnected by optical power dividers (3), each remote station including an optical transmitter operating at a high peak power and a low duty cycle for a short period. Typically the optical transmitter is enabled to transmit information for only 10% or less of the total time and for a maximum time of 500 ns.