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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:
Dec. 22, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Renato Caponi, Turin, IT;
Riccardo Calvani, Pino Torinese, IT;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385123 ; 385147 ; 372 25 ;
Abstract
Transform-limited ultrashort optical pulses are obtained by sending into a dispersion-shifted optical fibre pulses of such duration and intensity as to produce self-phase modulation. The pulses are also made to travel through a conventional fibre with suitable dispersion and are subjected to optical filtering, so as to compensate, for a particular peak power, the phase effect due to the chirp. Pulse peak power is selected so as to coincide with the vertex of the parabola plotting the square of the duration of the outgoing pulse versus the peak power of the incoming signal.