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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Atul Kumar Srivastava, Eatontown, NJ (US);
James W Sulhoff, Ocean, NJ (US);
Yan Sun, Middletown, NJ (US);
John Lehrer Zyskind, Shrewsbury, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359341 ; 356 72 ; 356 731 ;
Abstract
A method for determining the optimal design of a gain equalization filter (GEF) used in optical fiber amplifiers. The method is suitable for erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA) that are widely used in wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) optical communication systems and networks.