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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 20, 2017
Applicant:

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ahmed Almaiman, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Alan E. Willner, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Yinwen Cao, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Morteza Ziyadi, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/556 (2013.01); H04B 10/291 (2013.01); H04L 7/033 (2006.01); H04B 10/2507 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/556 (2013.01); H04B 10/2507 (2013.01); H04B 10/2916 (2013.01); H04L 7/0331 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus for phase-sensitive regeneration of a signal without a phase-locked loop and using Brillouin amplification. The system for phase-sensitive regeneration includes a data channel, one or more pumps and a mixing stage. The one or more pumps are coupled with the data channel. The mixing stage is coupled with the data channel and is for processing a data signal that is combined with an output of the one or more pumps and idler or higher harmonic. The mixing stage is configured to amplify the idler or higher harmonic using Brillouin amplification in a Brillouin gain medium to keep the one or more pumps and the data channel phase-locked.


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