Sycamore Networks, Inc.

Farzana I Khatri

Murat Azizoglu

Eric Arthur Swanson

Paolo L Narvaez

Naimish Patel

Derek E Spock

Jonathan C Bloch

Vijayanand Vusirikala

Kayi Lee

A method is provided for optical filter card design that facilitates a relatively efficient filter assignment algorithm solution resulting in a filter design that reduces a probability of unnecessary wavelength regenerations.

Method for designing optical filter cards

An optical amplifier for a 4-fiber system having two inputs and outputs is provided that makes use of a single amplifier rather than two separate amplifiers. The optical amplifier node makes use of an interleaver before and after the single amplifier to demultiplex and multiplex even and odd channel signals traveling in opposite directions. The arrangement can also amplify wide channel spaced signals traveling through a plurality of optical fibers. The optical amplifier node can be combined with other like amplifier nodes to provide more complex amplifier solutions at reduced costs due to the need for only half of the typical number of amplifiers. The optical amplifier node can also be combined with, e.g., variable optical attenuators, L/C/S filters, channel add/drop, co- and counter-propagating Raman amplification, and dispersion compensation modules to modify the optical signals as desired.

Two fiber support with single optical amplifier

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Farzana I Khatri