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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alcatel N.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 28 ; 359341 ; 372-6 ;
Abstract
To increase the pump efficiency in a fiber-optic amplifier, the pump coupler (2) is fabricated from a fiber whose mode field diameter for the pump light is adapted to the mode field diameter of the active length of fiber (7). In an alternative solution, the arm of the pump coupler (2) coupled to the pump source (1) on the one hand and connected to the active length of fiber (7) on the other hand consists of a fiber adapted to the mode field diameter of the active length of fiber (7), and the arm of the pump coupler (2) serving as a connection to the incoming transmission line (8) consists of a fiber corresponding to the optical waveguide of the transmission line (8).