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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. 31, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yongan Wu, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Assignee:
Corning Lasertron, Inc., Bedford, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/36 ;
Abstract
A laser pump module has a ridge waveguide chip with a ridge width that is greater than 4 micrometers (&mgr;m). This is a relatively wide ridge for this class of laser chips. Specifically, especially for signal lasers, narrow ridge widths are used in order to control lateral and transverse mode shape and size. In the present invention, however, where a chip is used for pump applications, a wider ridge is used to increase the laser effective gain volume and decrease the loss associated with the lowest order transverse mode to thus maximize the useful power and light that is coupled into the fiber pigtail.