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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lothar Benedict Erhard Josef Moeller, Hazlet, NJ (US);
Bernd Teichmann, Eckental, DE;
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/402 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/402 ;
Abstract
The present invention generally relates to the field of optical transmission and particularly to a method and an apparatus for controlling the optical power of an optical transmission signal in a wavelength division multiplex optical transmission system (WDM system). The optical power of a control channel is controlled to keep the total optical power of the optical transmission signal constant. The present invention avoids the deleterious effects of stimulated Brillouin Scattering by spreading the power density spectrum of the optical control signal.