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6560381 Optical filter  
Three Mach-Zehnder interferometers 141 to 143 are connected in a series between an optical input terminal and an optical output terminal in an optical filter. Each interferometer is composed of...
6560010 Broadband gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier devices  
A broadband semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) device includes at least two gain-clamped SOAs having different spectral responses. The gain-clamped SOAs are coupled so that the broadband SOA...
6560008 Controlling apparatus and controlling method for wavelength division multiplexing optical amplifier  
The present invention aims at providing a controlling apparatus and a controlling method for a wavelength division multiplexing optical amplifier to reduce the controlling error due to the...
6556345 Optical network equipment with control and data paths  
Optical amplifiers and other optical network equipment are provided for use in fiber-optic communications networks. The equipment may include dynamic spectral filters and optical channel monitors....
6556341 Optical transmission system having cascaded raman  
An optical transmission system for wavelength-division multiplex signals, having cascaded Raman amplifiers, has a number of pump sources for each Raman amplifier, each having different pump...
6552845 Optical gain equalizer and optical fiber transmission line  
Disclosed is an optical gain equalizer for equalizing optical powers for a plurality of signal lights having wavelength different from one another. Disclosed are also an optical transmission line...
6552844 Passively output flattened optical amplifier  
An optical amplifier and communications system for amplifying an input signal and providing an output signal includes a nonlinear light absorber for passively controlling the level of the output...
6549331 Polarization insensitive semiconductor optical amplifier  
An optical amplifier module that is insensitive to polarization comprises a first fiber, a second fiber, a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), and a polarization dependent loss (PDL) unit. The...
6545800 Depolarizers for optical channel monitors  
Optical channel monitor depolarizers are provided. The depolarizers may be used to reduce the effects of polarization-dependent loss on optical channel power measurements made in optical amplifiers...
6545799 Method and apparatus for optical system link control  
A method for tuning and improving the performance of an optical communication system comprising al link that includes optical amplifiers and, optionally, active and/or passive optical components...
6545798 Thermal ripple-compensating, gain-flattening filter for an optical amplifier  
An optical device including an optical amplifier to amplify optical signals received through an optical input, and to supply the amplified optical signals from an optical output, and an optical...
6542678 High-dispersion fibers for high-speed transmission  
The specification describes an optical transmission system for high speed, high capacity digital pulse transmission, i.e. at least 10 Gb/s at a duty cycle of at least 10%, which uses transmission...
6542291 Optical amplifier excitation light source control method for use in optical amplifier and optical amplifier control method  
In an optical amplifier for use in, for example, a wavelength multiplexing optical communication system, in order to allow an excitation light source to be enlargeable or removable in accordance...
6542290 Optical amplifier  
A method of amplifying, transmitting and receiving a signal light. The method includes multiplexing the signal light and a pumping light from a pumping light source so as to output the signal light...
6542289 Gain saturation tuning in optical amplifiers  
A method for controlling the shape and magnitude of the L-band gain spectrum of an erbium doped optical amplifier, in one aspect, involves saturating the amplifier gain with a saturating signal in...
6542288 Optical amplifier utilizing rare earth element-doped optical fibers for temperature compensation  
In an optical amplifier using a rare earth element-doped optical fiber such as an erbium-doped optical fiber, a variation of amplification gain resulting from temperature change is suppressed and...
6542287 Optical amplifier systems with transient control  
Optical amplifier equipment is provided for wavelength-division-multiplexing optical communications links that support multiple channels operating at different wavelengths. The optical amplifier...
6542233 Method and apparatus for the measurement of erbium optical amplifiers  
An inexpensive broadband source such as an ASE source, used for erbium amplifier measurements, compares well with the use of a prior art ITU grid. Deltas are less than 0.4 and 0.3 dB for gain and...
6539153 Light limiter  
The object of the present invention is to provide a light limiter which can control the generation of an optical surge, comprises few components, and has high reliability; in order to achieve the...
6538808 Semiconductor optical amplifier  
Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) are cheaper to manufacture, control and test than other types of optical amplifier such as erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). However, SOAs are...
6538803 Optical amplifier and optical wavelength division multiplexing communication system  
The present invention provides a wavelength division multiplex light communication system using an optical amplifier which can amplifying and translating a multiplex light signal obtained by...
6535331 Wideband optical amplifier and wideband variable wavelength optical source  
A wideband optical amplifier for amplifying an input optical signal of known wavelength in one of at least two bands of wavelength has a significantly small number of optical components and thus is...
6535330 Dynamic controller for a multi-channel optical amplifier  
A dynamic controller for a multi-channel EDFA-type optical amplifier is provided that is capable of providing a substantially tilt-free output over a range of selectable gain set points. The...
6535329 Temperature tuning an optical amplifier  
A method and system is disclosed of characterizing an optical amplifier for operation with a required tilt or curvature within predetermined limits. As the temperature of the erbium-doped optical...
6532106 All-optical gain controlled bidirectional add/drop optical amplifier  
A bidirectional add/drop optical amplifier used in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks to suppress the power change resulting from the adding and dropping of optical signals...
6532104 C-band and L-band optical amplifier for submarine transmission systems  
The invention proposes an optical amplifier for the C and L bands having a first stage with an amplification fiber ( 8 ) common to the C and L bands, a second stage with a branch ( 14 ) for C-band...
6532103 Optical fiber amplifier and optical transmission system using the same  
A variable attenuator is inserted into an optical input part and a feedback control is performed so that an optical input to an amplifying optical fiber becomes constant. Further, a control for...
6532101 System and method for wide band Raman amplification  
A multi-stage Raman amplifier includes a first Raman amplifier stage having a first sloped gain profile operable to amplify a plurality of signal wavelengths, and a second Raman amplifier stage...
6529319 Automatic gain-controlled optical fiber amplifier  
The present invention is to provide an automatic gain-controlled optical fiber amplifier, comprising: a first optical branch for branching a portion of an optical signal inputted into the optical...
6529316 Optical network equipment with optical channel monitor and dynamic spectral filter alarms  
Optical amplifiers and other optical network equipment is provided for use in fiber-optic communications networks. The equipment may include dynamic spectral filters and optical channel monitors....
6529315 Optical amplifier providing dispersion compensation  
A dispersion-compensating fiber amplifier having a Raman pumped dispersion-compensating fiber and a distributed optical amplifier. The dispersion-compensating fiber is pumped such that the noise...
6525873 Optical amplifiers with a simple gain/output control device  
An optical fiber amplifier includes an optical system and an electronic controller. The optical system includes: an optical gain medium; at least one pump source coupled to the optical gain medium;...
6525871 Optical amplification apparatus  
An optical amplification apparatus for adjusting optical power of wavelength-multiplexed signal light at respective wavelengths and for adjusting the optical output power at the respective...
6525869 Raman amplifier  
An optical amplifier has at least first stage in the form of a distributed Raman amplifier and a second stage in the form of a discrete Raman amplifier. The discrete amplifier has an output for...
6522460 Optical fiber amplifier control  
An optical fiber amplifier has a length of active optical fiber into which pump light from a pump laser is injected. The pump laser is locally controlled by a laser monitor diode, the pump laser...
6522459 Temperature control and monitoring of optical detector components in an optical communication system  
Optical detector components in a fiber-optic communication system are temperature stabilized. The optical detector components may be part of an optical amplifier, a receiver, or other optical...
6519080 Optical amplifier and optical transmission system  
An optical transmission system includes an optical transmitting unit ( 10 ) to transmit optical signals in a transmission wavelength band above 1570 nm; an optical receiving unit to receive the...
6519079 Optical fiber amplifier with reduced noise and method of making the same  
A method for amplifying optical signals and an optical fiber amplifier for accomplishing the same. An optical fiber is coupled to a source of pump light and a signal gain level is correlated to a...
6519078 Raman amplifier  
The object of this invention is to improve SNR in the Raman amplification. An optical fiber ( 10 ) consists of a dispersion shift fiber in which a zero dispersion wavelength is shifted to the 1.55...
6515796 Saturated amplifier generating burst support signal  
Circuitry and a concomitant methodology for generating a burst support signal to augment an input bursty optical signal in an optical channel. The burst support signal is produced whenever the...
6515794 Techniques for making an insertion loss correction in an optical fiber amplifier  
A method of providing a predetermined insertion loss in an optical fiber amplifier, includes the step of utilizing a predetermined, fixed, spectrally-flat loss compound (insertion loss pad, ILP) to...
6515777 Ring gain control in WDM optical signal transmission system  
A signal transmission system has a number of wave division multiplex optical carriers linking a number of switching units arranged in a closed ring network. The carriers are amplified to compensate...
6509986 WDM ring transmission system having amplified dropped channels  
A WDM ring transmission system is provided whereby each optical signal is first dropped from the ring, supplied to an amplifier, and then input to an optical receiver. Typically, a filtering...
6507420 Device and method for ascertaining noise power  
The invention relates to a method and to an arrangement for estimating total noise power (k·Pλ) at a specified point in a WDM-system which includes a predetermined number of amplifiers ( 51 ),...
6501870 System and method for reducing effects of optical impairments in optically amplified lightwave communication systems  
The effects of optical impairments on optical signal transmission are substantially reduced in a lightwave transmission system by positioning optical amplifiers and network elements in respective...
6498677 Optical amplifier systems with transient control  
Optical amplifiers are provided for use in fiber-optic communications networks. Gain may be provided using one or more rare-earth-doped fiber coils such as erbium-doped fiber coils. The coils may...
6498676 Optical filter for use or with an optical amplifier  
This invention relates to invention relates to a method for filtering and a variable slope optical filter for in-line use with an optical amplifier signal. The filter has a wavelength response that...
6496304 Optical amplifying device  
An optical brancher branches an input optical signal into two. An optical detector converts one optical signal branched by the optical brancher into an electrical signal. A first controller...
6496303 Ultra-broadband low-noise gain-flattened rare-earth-doped fibre amplifier  
An optical amplifier waveguide provides variable amplification gain to a broad wavelength input signal. The degree of amplification is proportional to the length of the transmission of the input...
6496302 Optical amplifier  
A compensation scheme for an optical amplifier that reduces differences in gain observed at various wavelengths combines and controls characteristics of an automatic gain control circuit and...