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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2017
Molex, Llc, Lisle, IL (US);
Chiachi Wang, Union City, CA (US);
Lifu Gong, San Jose, CA (US);
Lijie Qiao, Ottawa, CA;
Weihua Guan, Newark, CA (US);
Molex, LLC, Lisle, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optical communications. In one aspect, an optical amplifier includes an input port, a wavelength division multiplexing fiber coupled to a pump source and to a bar-cross switch, a first gain stage optically coupled between a first port of the bar-cross switch and to an output port, the first gain stage including a first gain flattening filter, and a secondary gain stage optically coupled between a second port and a third port of the bar-cross switch, the secondary gain stage including a second gain flattening filter. When in a bar-state of the bar-cross switch, the secondary gain stage is bypassed. And when in a cross-state of the bar-cross switch, the secondary gain stage and the first gain stage are applied to an input light beam.