Corning Incorporated

General Instrument Corporation

Oclaro Technology Limited

Douglas W Hall

Mark A Newhouse

Edward F Murphy

Bruce Gardiner Aitken

David R Huber

David L Weidman

Roger F Bartholomew

Paul Anthony Jakobson

Julia A Sharps

Clement Dowd Burton

Nicholas Francis Borrelli

Ljerka Ukrainczyk

William James Miller

Robert Alan Bellman

Michael John Yadlowsky

Jeffery Alan DeMeritt

William H Dumbaugh, Jr

Josef C Lapp

William Joseph Bouton

David Kinney Smith

A Joseph Antos

Robert M Hawk

Michael G Blankenship

Mark Lawrence Powley

Christian Lerminiaux

Thomas W McNamara

Felton Aaron Flood

Thomas W Webb

Karen Irene Matthews

David E Charlton

Gregory J Cowle

Chiachi Wang

Robert P Blaszyk

Pascale LaBorde

Richard Jansen

Carlos O Benveniste

Douglas R Cole

A solar heat collection element includes: a central tube () formed from glass-ceramic material; and an outer tube () formed from glass material disposed coaxially with respect to the central tube () to form a volume therebetween ().

Solar heat collection element with glass-ceramic central tube

Disclosed is a fiber amplifier system including a gain fiber having a single-mode core containing dopant ions capable of producing stimulated emission of light at wavelength &#x3bb;when pumped with light of wavelength &#x3bb;. Absorbing ion filtering means is operatively associated with the gain fiber to alter the gain curve. If the absorbing ions are the same as the gain ions of the gain fiber, the system further includes means for preventing pump light from exciting the gain ions of the filtering means. The excitation prevention means may take the form of means for attenuating pump light. If the absorbing ions are different from the dopant ions of the gain fiber, such absorbing ions can be subjected to light at wavelength &#x3b1;, but they will remain unexcited. Such absorbing ions can be used to co-dope the gain fiber, or they can be incorporated into the core of a fiber that is in series with the gain fiber.

Fiber amplifier with one single mode core having modified gain spectrum

An optical amplifier includes an optical feedback resonant laser cavity (OFRC) including a power dependent loss element (PDLE) having the characteristic that as the incident laser power on the PDLE increases the cavity loss decreases. The OFRC with the PDLE provides optical gain control or optical power control for a WDM amplifier or a single channel power equalization amplifier (PEA), respectively. A 1&times;N&times;N WADM node incorporating more than one of these amplifiers, at least some of which commonly share a pump source, and a method for controlling a transient power change in a single channel optical amplifier or reducing a DC gain error in a WDM optical amplifier that are subject to dynamically variable operating conditions at an input of the amplifier, are also disclosed.

Optical amplifier with power dependent feedback

A method of operating an optical amplifier for improved gain and pump-to-signal conversion efficiency in a long wavelength spectral region (L-band) of the emission spectrum of a rare earth doped gain medium having a known pump absorption band involves the steps of providing an optical signal to the amplifier having a large-signal input power; and providing pumping light to the amplifier having a wavelength that is different from a center wavelength of the known pump absorption band for amplifying the optical signal. Signal gain and improved pump-to-signal conversion efficiency was demonstrated for an erbium L-band signal by detuning the pump between about &plusmn;0-30 nm on either side of the pump band center wavelength of 979-980 nm. An optical amplifier employing the described method is also disclosed.

L-band amplification with detuned 980nm pump

A fiber optic device for use in fiber optic transmission systems and components thereof includes a pass-through fiber and one or more lengths of circulating fiber connected to the pass-through fiber by respective optical switches for selectively routing an optical signal through the circulating fiber lengths as it propagates along the pass-through fiber. The circulating fiber lengths are either dispersion compensating fibers or fibers doped with a substance that will amplify or absorb the optical signal in the respective presence or absence of a pump signal. The invention thus allows various amounts of dispersion or gain (absorption) to be selectively switched into or out of use depending upon requirements at the time. For example, an amplifying component could serve as a pre- or power- or in-line amplifier device depending on the lesser or greater amount of gain fiber elected by switching. The device can be interconnected with the transmission system or components thereof via splicing to of the ends of the pass-through fiber or via optical switches connected to the ends of the pass through fiber.

Switchable fiber optic device for fiber transmission system and

An improved four-port dichroic WDM, for use in a multiwavelength, bi-directional optical amplifier, having a dichroic filter for substantially reflecting a first wavelength band input to the WDM to an output of the WDM for the first wavelength band and for substantially transmitting a second wavelength band input to the WDM to an output of the WDM for the second wavelength band, in which some of a first 3 dB wavelength in the first wavelength band is transmitted by the filter and some of a second 3 dB wavelength in the second wavelength band is reflected by the filter, includes another dichroic filter having a filter function different than the filter function of the WDM filter providing an insertion loss for the first or the second 3 dB wavelengths sufficient to reflect and transmit, respectively, substantially all of the first and second 3 dB wavelengths. Additional dichroic filters for suppressing 3 dB light are used to prevent Q-switching in an optical gain cavity in a multiwavelength, bi-directional optical amplifier formed by a reflection point in an optical path connected to the amplifier.

Device and method to supress Q-switching in an optical amplifying device

A package for a high power semiconductor laser comprising a hermetically sealed container filled with a dry gaseous medium containing oxygen. The presence of oxygen in the laser atmosphere is counter to standard practice in the art which teaches the use of an atmosphere of a dry inert gas. The package also includes a getter for organic impurities, e.g., a getter composed of a porous silica or a zeolite. The hydrogen content of the materials used to form the package are reduced by baking at an elevated temperature for an extended period of time, e.g., at 150.degree. C. for 200 hours.

Packaging of high power semiconductor lasers

Disclosed is a family of dispersion compensating optical fibers that are adapted for use with conventional single-mode transmission fibers that are optimized for zero dispersion operation at a wavelength in the range from 1290 nm to 1330 nm to form a transmission link suitable for low dispersion operation in the 1520-1565 nm wavelength window. The dispersion compensating fibers are capable of providing a dispersion more negative than -20 ps/nm-km and attenuation less than 1 dB/km at wavelengths in the 1520-1565 nm region. Certain of the dispersion compensating fibers also exhibit a dispersion versus wavelength relationship having a negative slope in the 1520-1565 nm region, to compensate for the dispersion versus wavelength slope of the transmission fiber. The dispersion compensating fiber can be advantageously combined with a fiber amplifier to form a compensator that is adapted to overcome attenuation introduced into the system by the dispersion compensating fiber. In one embodiment, the dispersion compensating fiber is also a distributed fiber amplifier.

Dispersion compensating devices and systems

The use of a doped optical fiber amplifier enables the transmission of multi-channel AM-VSB television signals. An Erbium doped fiber amplifier is disclosed. The amplifier is also useful for reducing second order distortion products produced in an amplitude modulated subcarrier optical communication system. The amplifier may be used in a tree and branch structure optical fiber television network.

Optical fiber tree and branch network for AM signal distribution

Foldable bicycle carrier for automobiles

Transmission of AM-VSB video signals over an optical fiber

This invention relates to thallium germanate, tellurite, and antimonite glasses possessing high optical nonlinearity, as well as good visible and infrared transmission, making them suitable materials for the fabrication of active optical devices.

Thallium germanate, tellurite, and antimonite glasses

This invention relates to thallium tellurite glasses possessing a high Verdet constant and high optical nonlinearity, as well as good visible and infrared transmission, making them suitable materials for the fabrication of active optical devices. The glasses consist essentially, expressed in terms of cation percent, of 5-74.5% TeO.sub.2, 0.5-20% SiO.sub.2, 4-50% TlO.sub.0.5, and 0-71% PbO, wherein PbO+T10.sub.0.5.gtoreq.25 %, TeO.sub.2 +SiO.sub.2 .gtoreq.25%, and TeO.sub.2 +SiO.sub.2 +TlO.sub.0.5 +PbO constitutes at least 65% of the total composition.

Disclosed is a fiber amplifier system including a gain fiber having a single-mode core doped with active dopant ions capable of producing stimulated emission of light at wavelength .lambda..sub.s when pumped with light of wavelength .lambda..sub.p. Spliced to the gain fiber is a light-attenuating fiber having a core containing a dopant that attenuates light of wavelength .lambda..sub.p but not .lambda..sub.s. The amplifier is conventionally employed in a system including an incoming telecommunication fiber for introducing light of wavelength .lambda..sub.s into an end of the gain fiber, the amplified signal being connected to an outgoing telecommunication fiber. The system further includes a pump source for introducing light of wavelength .lambda..sub.p into an end of the gain fiber. Elements of the system can be arranged for forward pumping, counter pumping and dual ended pumping. Various interconnection schemes are disclosed for forming a series arrangement including the gain fiber, the attenuating fiber and the outgoing fiber.

Optical fiber amplifier with filter

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Corning, NY, United States of America

Douglas W Hall