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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:
Jun. 20, 1978

Filed:

Feb. 02, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:

Herman Anton Haus, Lexington, MA (US);

Charles Vernon Shank, Holmdel, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
331 / ; 350 9613 ;
Abstract

Distributed feedback devices such as distributed feedback lasers are modified by introduction of a central coupling strength discontinuity or other deviation from uniform nature of the distributed perturbations, in order to promote the transmission of oscillation of a single mode in preference over the nearest redundant modes. The class of deviations from uniform coupling strength may be mathematically termed antisymmetric deviations, because they are deviations about the midpoint of the perturbation pattern which result in a distinction of effect of the two halves of the pattern, taking either half as a reference pattern by itself.


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