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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189256 | Gain equalizer, optical amplifier, loss compensation method, and optical amplification method A gain equalizer for compensation a variation of intensity among a plurality of optical signals each including a different wavelength in a wavelength multiplexed optical signal includes an input part for receiving the wavelength multiplexed optical signal, an output... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8107160 | Light output control apparatus A light output control apparatus, includes: an excitation light source that outputs excitation light; an excitation light guiding unit that guides the excitation light to an optical amplifying medium for transmitti... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8054539 | Optical system for reducing stimulated Brillouin scattering by controllably changing polarization direction of an optical signal An optical system having an input surface configured to receive an input optical signal having a polarization, and a polarization changer comprising the input surface and configured to generate two orthogonal polarization components from the input optical signal. Th... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7738165 | Amplified spontaneous emission reflector-based gain-clamped fiber amplifier Provided is an all-optical gain-clamped fiber amplifier, comprising transmission and isolation means for periodically transmitting an optical signal or reflecting amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) back to a gain medium. The transmission and isolation means can be... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733561 | Suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in high power fiber amplifiers A fiber amplifier suitable for high power, narrow linewidth applications exhibits suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) by segmenting the fiber amplifier into separate portions that exhibit different Brillouin center frequencies. By changing the cente... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7688498 | Optical amplifier and optical monitor circuit An optical amplifier of the present invention comprises: an optical amplifying circuit which amplifies a signal light; an optical reflection medium which is disposed on an optical fiber connected to the optical amplifying circuit and is capable of reflecting a noise... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7663801 | Managing gain tilt in an optically amplified transmission system A method of managing gain tilt in an optical transmission segment including providing an optical transmission segment having a plurality of fiber optic cable spans and a plurality of repeaters coupled to the fiber optic cable spans. Gain tilt in the optical transmis... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7626758 | Method and apparatus for controlling and protecting pulsed high power fiber amplifier systems An electronic circuit for controlling a laser system consisting of a pulse source and high power fiber amplifier is disclosed. The circuit is used to control the gain of the high power fiber amplifier system so that the amplified output pulses have predetermined pul... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7583432 | Amplified optical ring transmission system A ringed optical transmission system comprises along the ring rare earth doped fiber amplifiers. The system has a gain peak with a λASE wavelength outside the λ1-λn band of the channels transmitted along the ring, the wavelength c... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7437083 | Wavelength converter A wavelength converter for binary optical signals includes an interferometer structure (110) for generating an output signal by modulating a received local signal (LS) according to the modulation of a fUrther received first input signal (IS 1). When su... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437070 | Submarine observation apparatus and submarine observation system In each of a plurality of submarine observation apparatus (1 to n), a branching unit (63) branches fixed-wavelength light (λ1) from an incoming wavelength-multiplexed light signal. An observation signal modulating unit (64) modulates the... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433117 | Polarization-diverse optical amplification A polarization-diverse optical amplifier includes a polarization-sensitive optically active medium and a polarization splitter. The polarization splitter is configured to receive input light, to direct a first polarization component of the received input light to a ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423804 | Spectrally resolved fast monitor A method and apparatus for monitoring spectral tilt uses an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) to separate a multiplexed optical signal having a plurality of wavelength channels into a plurality of sub-bands, where each sub-band spans a different wavelength range and i... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417791 | Optical amplifier for amplifying multi-wavelength light Multi-wavelength light is inputted to an erbium-doped fiber as an optical amplification medium. Pump light is supplied to this erbium-doped fiber. When a transition from a state signal light on the short wavelength area in the multi-wavelength is input in the erbium... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414780 | All-fiber chirped pulse amplification systems By compensating polarization mode-dispersion as well chromatic dispersion in photonic crystal fiber pulse compressors, high pulse energies can be obtained from all-fiber chirped pulse amplification systems. By inducing third-order dispersion in fiber amplifiers via ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7394590 | Control device and control method of optical amplifier There are provided an ASE correction unit which corrects control errors regarding either or both of the gain and the output level of the optical amplifier, which control errors are generated due to the ASE, and an ASE correction controller which controls the correct... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394995 | System and method for a compact optical receiver with wide dynamic range An optical receiver is disclosed comprising an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) that is coupled to a photodiode and transimpedance amplifier without filtering output light signal in the EDFA. Optionally, a clock/data regenerator can be coupled to the electrical o... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379234 | Quality monitoring of an optical fiber amplifier A method is described for detecting aging effects in components of an optical fiber amplifier wherein a broadband signal is amplified by means of a pump source in conjunction with at least one amplifying fiber. Input and output powers or, as the case may be, photon ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379637 | Method, optical device, and system for optical fiber transmission The present invention relates to a method for optical fiber transmission which can increase a transmission distance. A first optical fiber having dispersion is first provided. An optical signal is next supplied to the first optical fiber so that the optical signal i... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7371966 | High speed active flex cable link A method and apparatus, in some embodiments the apparatus includes a flex cable terminating at a first end and a second end and having a plurality of conductors therein, and a repeater circuit disposed between the first end and the second end and connected to at lea... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369300 | Optical amplifier pre-emphasis and equalization method and optical communications system incorporating same The present invention provides an optical amplifier pre-emphasis and equalization method that alleviates the optical amplifier gain ripple penalty experienced in conventional optical communications systems. This method includes storing measured communications channe... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369777 | Method and apparatus for automatically adjusting the optical power directed to a dispersion compensating element A dispersion compensator is provided that includes an input port 102 for receiving a WDM optical signal and a dispersion compensating element 110 coupled to the input port for substantially compensating the WDM optical signal for dispersion that has ac... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369780 | Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems The present invention provides a remodulating channel selector for a wavelength division multiplexed optical communication system. The remodulating selector receives a WDM input signal, selects a particular optical channel from the WDM signal and places the informat... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366209 | Orthogonal polarization multiplexing transmission apparatus and multiplexing method used for the same An orthogonal polarization multiplexing transmission apparatus capable of performing dispersion compensation considering a short wavelength side and a long wavelength side of a zero dispersion wavelength. A plurality of light signals of different wavelengths are div... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362939 | Optical fiber for long period grating, long period grating component and manufacturing method of the same This invention relates to an optical fiber for long period grating (LPG), LPG components, and manufacturing method of LPG used as a mode coupler, an optical filter, etc. The optical fiber for LPG comprises a core layer, a first cladding layer that surrounds said cor... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362925 | Control method and control apparatus of optical device The present invention aims at providing a control method and a control apparatus for controlling the operation setting of an optical device with high accuracy, so as to reliably obtain characteristics according to a desired relationship to be set corresponding to a ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362498 | Method and apparatus for controlling a semiconductor optical amplifier for use in a passive optical network An optical amplifier including: an amplifier having an input port and an output port, which is disposed along a main signal line of the optical amplifier; a dummy laser generation circuit having an output coupled to the main signal line and operative for inputting a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355785 | Gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier A gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier is disclosed. The amplifier includes a gain waveguide for amplifying an optical signal input to the gain waveguide, and a grating layer, in contact with the gain waveguide, having a first grating disposed at a first end... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356062 | Semiconductor laser with reduced heat loss A semiconductor laser having a semiconductor chip (1) which contains an active layer (5) and emits radiation in a main radiating direction (6). The active layer (5) is structured in a direction perpendicular to the main radiating directio... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352970 | Dispersion management system for soliton optical transmission system A dispersion management system for soliton or soliton-like transmission systems comprises a length of optical fiber (L) in which a plurality of sections (I) made up of components (N,A) of opposite sign dispersions are concatenated together. The duration of the dispe... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343097 | Optical transmission systems including optical amplifiers and methods of use therein Optical transmission systems including a plurality of optical amplifiers configured to provide optical amplification of one or more information carrying optical signal wavelengths. At least two of the optical amplifiers are operated to provide net losses or net gain... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342711 | Method and contrivance for applying a Raman amplification in a transmission and/or fibre device Raman amplification is used in optical transmission systems, devices and/or components way of for applying Raman amplification avoiding or suppressing detrimental and hence undesirable non-linear effects is provided. Raman amplification in an optical device is provi... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340133 | Configurable dispersion compensation trimmer The invention pertains to optical fiber transmission systems, and is particularly relevant to transmission of large volumes of data over long distances at high rates. An improved apparatus achieving precise dispersion compensation in a fiber span is disclosed. In pa... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336414 | Optical modulating device An optical modulation apparatus is provided which implements a stable amplifying function by reducing the effect of reflected light rays form end faces of a bidirectional optical amplifier by imposing a numerical limitation on the relationship between the gain of th... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336870 | Optical transmission system An optical transmission system includes a first/second node with a first/second dispersion compensator that performs a first/second dispersion compensation on an optical signal; and a third node that is arranged between the first/second nodes. The amounts of the fir... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331722 | Optical module for housing an optical component An optical module for housing an optical component to which optical fibers are to be connected, the optical module comprises a casing; at least two round fiber guides which are arranged within the casing, spaced at a distant from each other and around which the opti... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331697 | LED lighting system with helical fiber filament A lighting system includes a helical light-transmitting fiber and a light source. The helical light-transmitting fiber is doped with a first wavelength converting material and defines a helical axis. The light source is aligned axially with the helical fiber such th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330651 | Optical amplifying apparatus, optical transmission system and method of adjusting optical transmission loss An optical amplifying apparatus connected mutually through an optical transmission line includes an optical detecting unit for detecting an input level of an amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) light, an optical amplifying unit for amplifying a signal light, and an... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327954 | Optical signaling to share active channel information A method for optical supervisory signaling includes determining a wavelength channel status (WCS) value, a wavelength channel failure (WCF) value, and a wavelength channel lit (WCL) value for each one of multiple data channels services by an optical communication no... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327958 | Transient-based channel growth for optical transmission systems A channel-growth plan for an optical transmission system selects channels such that the transients that result in the channels that survive a network failure, such as an upstream fiber cut, are either minimized or effectively handled by some transient-control techni... | 02/05/2008 |
