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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Benny Peter Mikkelsen, Atlantic Highlands, NJ (US);
Gregory Raybon, Shrewsbury, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/35 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/35 ;
Abstract
An optical translator that includes an interferometer and a plurality of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) coupled to the interferometer. The at least two of the SOAs receives data and a clock signal. The data is received by the at least two SOAs at different times. A coupler combines each of a respective output of the at least two SOAs to provide output data. The output data is a retimed and a reshaped signal of the data provided to at least one of the plurality of SOAs.