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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1998
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical amplifier including an input unit, a polarization maintaining optical amplifying unit, an exciting unit and an output unit. The input unit enables receiving a first signal light in a first polarization state and a second signal light in a second polarization state different from the first polarization state. The polarization maintaining optical amplifying unit includes a polarization maintaining optical amplifying medium enabling receiving the first and second signal lights with the first and second polarization states maintained as they are. The exciting unit provides first and second exiting lights having polarization states corresponding to the first and second lights, respectively, so that the polarization maintaining optical amplifying unit is capable of selectively amplifying the first and second signal lights, and the output unit enables receiving the first and second signal lights after being amplified by the polarization maintaining optical amplifying unit and outputting the amplified first and second signal lights to a transmission line.