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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8077384 | Optical amplifier, and optical transmission system including the optical amplifier An optical amplifier provided in a repeater station of an optical transmission system is proposed. The optical amplifier amplifies an signal light and performs ALC of output power by means of a variable optical attenuator (VOA). The optical amplifier receives a diff... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7961380 | Fast power transient supression in constant power-mode controlled optical amplifiers The specification describes an improved approach to suppressing fast transients in optical amplifier systems. The approach relies on operating the amplifier in an automatic power-mode control with an extra loss component. It is applicable to optical amplifiers based... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7619813 | Wavelength division multiplexing device, an optical leakage prevention method, and a wavelength division multiplexing communication system A wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) device, an optical leakage prevention method, and a WDM communication system are disclosed. The WDM device includes a level adjusting unit for receiving an optical signal, for adjusting the optical power level of the received... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7453628 | Optical amplifier having wide dynamic range In an optical amplifier of the invention, a first variable optical attenuator is provided between a fore-stage optical amplification unit and a post-stage optical amplification unit, and a second variable optical attenuator is also provided on the output side of the... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7408702 | Bidirectional optical amplifier A bidirectional amplification system and method are disclosed. A single optical line amplifier and isolation loss filters are used to amplify signals in both the east and west directions with sufficient gain along a fiber. ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400443 | Method and apparatus for optical amplifying device gain control with gain threshold Optical amplifying method and apparatus are proposed. Constant gain amplifiers operate such that the output power of the amplifier generally tracks the input power. However, optical systems are not perfect and the input to the optical amplifier stage includes not on... | 07/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7362499 | Optical amplifier with pump light source control for Raman amplification A Raman amplifier for amplifying a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) light including signal lights wavelength division multiplexed together. The amplifier includes an optical amplifying medium and a controller. The optical amplifying medium uses Raman amplificat... | 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 |
| 7345811 | Multimode fiber optic amplifier and method of amplifying optical signals A multimode fiber receiver includes a multimode collimator, a multimode fiber optic amplifier and a detector. The collimator receives incoming signals and provides the signals to the amplifier. The amplifier includes plural amplification stages, a limiter, a tunable... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343102 | Optical transmission system with automatic signal level adjustment and startup functions An optical transmission system with automatic startup functions to optimize the power level of optical signals entering each optical amplifier and operate those amplifiers in appropriate mode. In the process of starting up an optical transmission system, upstream an... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7330304 | Method and apparatus for PPM demodulation using a semiconductor optical amplifier An optical pulse position modulation receiver relying on the gain dynamics in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). Optical PPM signal pulses and periodic optical clock pulses at a different frequency and/or polarization than the signal pulses are coupled into an... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324268 | Optical signal amplifier and method An optical amplification apparatus is provided comprising a plurality of fiber amplification media segments which are concatenated in series wherein subsequent to each fiber amplification media segment one or more wavelengths is dropped so as to exploit a gain versu... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7302178 | System and method for measuring power of optical signals carried over a fiber optic link A pilot tone generator receives optical energy from an optical communication medium carrying a plurality of optical signals. Each optical signal carries data modulated at a unique wavelength and further modulated with a unique identification signal. The identificati... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7280762 | Optical communication system having dynamic gain equalization An optical communication device, and related method, are provided for providing a tailored, spectrally non-uniform gain over a broad spectrum. In particular, the optical communication device includes an optical amplifier having a dynamic gain equalization (DGE) circ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7256931 | Optical amplifying device In an optical amplifying device, an optical beam passes multiple times through a grazing-incidence bounce amplifier, accessing different parts (G1,G2) of the gain region on each transit. This provides improved characteristics in beam quality, with high... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7242865 | Optical communication system An optical transmission equipment in an optical communication system interconnecting two optical transmission equipment sets by a main transmission line and a backup transmission line. An optical amplifier amplifies and outputs optical signals from one transmission ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236700 | Scalable and exchangeable erbium doped fiber amplifier for DWDM Erbium doped fiber amplifiers for dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) metro area optical networks may be configured as either high gain amplifiers or power amplifiers. The erbium doped fiber type, length, and pump power level are selected so that the shape ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227681 | Controller which controls a variable optical attenuator to control the power level of a wavelength-multiplexed optical signal when the number of channels are varied An optical amplifier which amplifies a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical signal having a variable number of channels associated with different wavelengths and outputs the amplified WDM optical signal. The optical amplifier includes (a) an optical attenua... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224517 | Multi-wavelength light amplifier A multi-wavelength light amplifier includes a first-stage light amplifier which has a first light amplifying optical fiber amplifying a light input, a second-stage light amplifier which has a second light amplifying optical fiber amplifying a first light output from... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224516 | Multimode fiber optic amplifier and method of amplifying optical signals A multimode fiber receiver includes a multimode collimator, a multimode fiber optic amplifier and a detector. The collimator receives incoming signals and provides the signals to the amplifier. The amplifier includes plural amplification stages, a limiter, a tunable... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212335 | Apparatus and method for amplification medium performance simulation, and optical amplifier An amplification medium simulation apparatus comprises a basic data retaining unit 21, an input signal beam information retaining unit 22, and a simulation executing unit 31 approximating and calculating an output signal beam power at each signa... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206512 | Method of controlling optical wavelength division multiplexing transmission apparatus A method of controlling an optical wavelength division multiplexing transmission apparatus achieves stable wavelength division multiplexing optical transmission by switching a control mode of an optical amplification section in accordance with an input state of opti... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202997 | Optical amplifier and optical amplifier control method An optical amplifier includes first and second optical amplifier units, a variable optical attenuator optically coupled between the first and second optical amplifier units, a first control unit to control gains of the first and second optical amplifier units based ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200333 | Optical communication apparatus, system, and method that properly compensate for chromatic dispersion An optical communication apparatus performs wavelength division multiplexing with respect to signals of a plurality of signal transmission bands. The apparatus includes a first optical unit which effects distributed Raman amplification and has a characteristic that ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197246 | Optical switch, optical amplifier and optical power controller as well as optical add-drop multiplexer The first present invention provides an optical switch including the following elements. At least a plurality of optical transmission lines are provided for transmissions of optical signals. Each of the at least plurality of optical transmission lines have at least ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7180655 | Broad-band light source A broad-band light source has a reduced tendency to oscillate and has high efficiency. The broad-band light source comprises (a) an optical waveguide that comprises a optical active element to generate an ASE lightwave when a pumping lightwave is supplied, that outp... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7173756 | Optical amplification system for variable span length WDM optical communication systems An optical communications system includes a plurality of optical fiber spans. An optical loss of one of the plurality of optical fiber spans is different from an optical loss of another one of the plurality of optical fiber spans. At least one of the plurality of op... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170673 | Optical amplifying repeater apparatus and optical amplifying/repeating transmission system Light signals of first to n-th bands amplified en bloc undergo proper attenuation through an adjustable optical attenuator in conformance with attenuation in an optical fiber connected to input of an optical amplifying repeater apparatus, whereon the light signals a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7161734 | Method and apparatus for controlling power transients in an optical communication system A method and apparatus for controlling transients in an optical signal propagating along an optical fiber path interconnecting a plurality of network elements employs a power threshold to determine an appropriate response given a change in optical signal power. ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158290 | Controlling apparatus for optical amplifier and controlling method thereof An optical amplifier is provided with a controlling unit for controlling a gain of the optical amplifier based on input light power and output light power of the optical amplifier, as well as a gain control amount variable unit for changing the gain control amount o... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154664 | Apparatus and method for amplification medium performance simulation, and optical amplifier An amplification medium simulation apparatus comprises a basic data retaining unit 21, an input signal beam information retaining unit 22, and a simulation executing unit 31 approximating and calculating an output signal beam power at each signa... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151895 | Method and system for automatically setting gain for an amplifier in an optical network A method for automatically setting a gain for an amplifier in an optical network includes transmitting, from a source proximate an upstream amplifier coupled to an optical span, a stable signal over the optical span. The method also includes using the stable signal ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151630 | Raman amplification repeater A repeater according to the present invention includes a plurality of excitation light sources with varying center wavelengths for use as an excitation light source to achieve Raman amplification; and comprises a flatness monitoring circuit which monitors the flatne... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7145717 | Optical amplifier An optical amplifier that improves transmission quality by driving an excitation light source according to a change in the level of an input optical signal and by compensating for a change in the characteristics of the excitation light source. An optical amplificati... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139120 | Optical amplifier with variable gain equalization An optical amplifier, provided in a WDM transmission system, contains an amplification medium for amplifying WDM light, a measurement part for measuring at least one input optical power of the WDM light on both input and output sides of the amplification medium, a v... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7116908 | Optical transmission system for substantially equalizing the output signal level among frequency bands and substantially lowering the signal-to-noise ratio In the WDM systems, the OSNR and the signal loss among the optical signals are substantially minimized at the receiving terminal to combat the SRS effects. An equal amount of the signal loss is expected for every span in the transmission path so that the optical amp... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7106499 | Raman amplification control method, optical communication system, optical amplifier and program Power of signal light injected to a Raman amplification medium is measured or estimated by calculation and ratio of the gain between forward pump light and backward pump light is controlled according to the result of the measurement or calculation. Wavelengths used ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103275 | Optical transmission system An optical transmission system capable of monitoring the operating status of Raman-amplifier repeaters even when an optical transmission line is partly disrupted by a fiber failure. An end station sends a monitoring command signal to request a particular repeater to... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7092148 | Optical communication system having dynamic gain equalization An optical communication device, and related method, are provided for reducing ripple in WDM systems. In particular, the optical communication device includes a dynamic gain equalization (DGE) circuit is coupled to an optical communication path carrying the WDM opti... | 08/15/2006 |
