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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mohammad Taghi Fatehi, Middletown, NJ (US);
Neil Jackman, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Andrew Jozan, Creamridge, NJ (US);
Virginia Laura Nichols, Aberdeen, NJ (US);
Sunita H Patel, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Mario Alberto Restrepo, Ocean, NJ (US);
Ravindra K Vora, Freehold, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359341 ; 359176 ; 359345 ; 385 17 ; 385 48 ;
Abstract
The subject matter is directed to a parallel array of optical amplifiers and is also directed to equally sharing the optical power supplied by a plurality of optical pumps among the array of optical amplifiers such that if one of the pumps fails the power outputted by the remaining pumps is still equally shared among the array of optical amplifiers.