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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:
Nov. 26, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lawrence E. Foltzer, Occidental, CA (US);
Assignee:
Turin Networks, Petaluma, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/26 ; H01S 3/13 ; G02F 1/35 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/26 ; H01S 3/13 ; G02F 1/35 ;
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a comb generator and multiple modulators is described. In one embodiment, the comb generator generates a multi-wavelength comb of optical frequencies. Each of the modulators receives the comb on one input as well as an input data signal on another input. Each of the modulators modulates the comb with its input data signal, thereby creating a modulated comb signal having duplicate signal sidebands on each spectral line of the comb. Each modulator outputs the modulated comb signal on the output.