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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Jacob, Avon, FR;
Michel Prassas, Avon, FR;
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/00 ;
Abstract
There is proposed an optical amplifier apparatus particularly for use in networks distributing signals by optical fibers, comprising first and second parallel optical branches ( ), the first optical branch ( ) including optical amplifier means ( ) for amplifying digital signals and the second optical branch including optical amplifier means ( ) for amplifying analogue signals, the optical amplifier means ( ) of the first optical path ( ) being adapted to amplify bidirectional digital signals and the optical amplifier means ( ) of the second optical branch ( ) being adapted to amplify unidirectional analogue signals.