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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. 26, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, Montreal, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359341 ;
Abstract
A construction of gain tilt exhibiting optical amplifier that incorporates a gain flattening filter also includes a neutral density filter the value of whose attenuation is adjustable after assembly of the components of the amplifier. This neutral density filter is constructed by the performance of a succession of localised re-fusion operations at a localised region of an optical fiber. By this means the attenuation is increased to a desired value that provides the amplifier with optimised gain flattening at some predetermined value of amplifier external gain.