This provides an optically transmitting apparatus, an optically
transmitting system and an optically transmitting method. This receives
an optical signal which is configured in accordance with any one frame
format among a plurality of frame formats and includes at least a clock
signal and a data signal, and performs an
optical-electric/electric-optical conversion on the received optical
signal, and extracts the clock signal and the data signal, which
correspond to the frame format, from the optical-electric converted
signal. This correlates and stores an idle code indicative of a block
where the actual data is not communicated and the frame format, reads the
idle code from the extracted data signal, identifies the frame format
corresponding to the read idle code, and executes a transmitting process
in accordance with the identified frame format.