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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:
Oct. 08, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 27, 2017
Applicants:

Kim B. Roberts, Ottawa, CA;

James Harley, Nepean, CA;

Qunbi Zhuge, Kanata, CA;

Michael Andrew Reimer, Stittsville, CA;

Maurice O'sullivan, Ottawa, CA;

Inventors:

Kim B. Roberts, Ottawa, CA;

James Harley, Nepean, CA;

Qunbi Zhuge, Kanata, CA;

Michael Andrew Reimer, Stittsville, CA;

Maurice O'Sullivan, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/079 (2013.01); H04B 10/294 (2013.01); H04J 14/02 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/58 (2013.01); H04B 10/2557 (2013.01); H04B 10/255 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/0221 (2013.01); H04B 10/07955 (2013.01); H04B 10/58 (2013.01); H04J 14/0275 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0066 (2013.01); H04B 10/0793 (2013.01); H04B 10/255 (2013.01); H04B 10/2557 (2013.01); H04B 2210/254 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0041 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0083 (2013.01);
Abstract

Multiple receivers are comprised in a flexible coherent transceiver of a multi-span optical fiber network. Each of the multiple receivers is operative to handle communications on a respective channel. The multiple receivers measure optical characteristics. For each of the multiple receivers, the optical characteristics include optical nonlinear interactions on the respective channel, the optical nonlinear interactions being at least partially dependent from one span to another span. An optical power of a signal on each of the multiple channels is adjusted as a function of the optical characteristics.


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