Patent 7239441 was granted and assigned to NEC Corporation on July, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A Raman amplification repeater using the amplification function of a signal light caused by Raman scattering which occurs when a pumping light is applied to a transmission path fiber, in which signal light power is monitored by means of a plurality of PDs by using wavelengths for monitoring whose number is larger than the number of pumping light wavelengths to control output power of a pumping light LD which emits the pumping light.