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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Adel A Saleh, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ; H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
330-43 ; 455611 ; 370-3 ;
Abstract
An improved optical amplifier is disclosed with reduced signal-induced, deleterious, nonlinear effects, such as crosstalk, inter-modulation distortion and other saturation-induced effects. The invention comprises an optical amplifier with a compensation loop, such as a feed-forward or a feed-backward loop. This loop provides additional pumping to the gain medium associated with the amplifier, thereby compensating for what would otherwise be deleterious, signal-induced variations in the gain of the optical amplifier.