OPTICAL COMMUNICATION METHOD, OPTICAL COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive optical communication system of high transmission efficiency. SOLUTION: An optical transmission/reception circuit 10 included in a station side apparatus 1 of this optical communication system is provided with an incoming scheduler 14 for generating scheduling transmission data indicating a transmission enabling time of each of a plurality of communication terminals 5 and a signal indicating an activation time of a reset signal, a reset generating circuit 17 for making the reset signal into an activation level within a guard time on the basis of a signal from the scheduler section 14, and a burst optical receiving circuit 11 in which an offset value of 0 level of an output signal corresponding to a fact that the reset signal is made into an activation level. Accordingly, the reset signal is made into an activation level earlier and an invalid part of the burst optical signal can be made small. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI