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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:
Jul. 27, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sidney X Huang, West Hills, CA (US);
Edward Phillips, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Litton Systems, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356350 ; 372-6 ;
Abstract
A length of an absorbing optical fiber is connected to receive light output from an optically pumped light source. The light source includes a gain fiber that is doped with erbium. Pumping the erbium with a pump wavelength of 980 nm causes the erbium to emit light having a wavelength of 1550 nm. Ytterbium ions in the absorbing fiber attenuate light having the pump wavelength without affecting the intensity of the 1550 nm light output from the erbium in the gain fiber.