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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph Earl Ford, Oakhurst Township, Monmouth County, NJ (US);
Wayne Harvey Knox, Holmdel Township, Monmouth County, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/008 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/008 ;
Abstract
Feedback instabilities arising from interactions between automatic control loops at the amplifier nodes of an optical network are eliminated by restricting operation to a single amplifier node at a time. Amplifier node activation is accomplished using a global control signal which is sequentially passed from an upstream node through all of the nodes of the system. By controlling the state of the global control signal, an upstream node has operational priority over downstream nodes.