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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Janet Jackel, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/16 ; H01S 3/083 ; H01S 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/16 ; H01S 3/083 ; H01S 5/00 ;
Abstract
Circuitry and a concomitant methodology for generating a burst support signal to augment an input bursty optical signal in an optical channel. The burst support signal is produced whenever the input bursty optical signal falls below a predetermined threshold. The burst support signal is the result of self-oscillation of a semiconductor optical amplifier and a tunable optical feedback loop. The wavelength of the self-oscillation is determined by the operating characteristic of the feedback loop.