Incident signal beam pulses are transmitted by an on-state region, and an
optical path for the signal beam pulses is spatially switched in an
optical switch. Signal beam pulses transmitted by the on-state region of
the optical switch are detected at a pixel corresponding to a
transmitting region of a photo-detector equipped with a plurality of
pixels. A timing computation unit acquires position information of a
pixel at which a predetermined signal beam pulse has been detected, on
the basis of a result of the detection conducted by the photo-detector,
and computes timing of arrival of a predetermined signal beam pulse at
the optical switch on the basis of the position information of the pixel
and time when a region corresponding to the pixel is brought to an
on-state.