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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:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Fujikura Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/00 ;
Abstract
An optical fiber amplifier comprises an optical fiber for light loss which is provided in a later stage than an optical fiber amplification section or midway therein, the amount of light absorption and the wavelength dependency of the absorption of the optical fiber changing according to the power of input light; whereby the optical fiber amplifier can maintain flat gain in a wide wavelength band, the gain flatness not changing over a wide dynamic range and being maintained irrespective of variation in the power of input signal light.