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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:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter Krummrich, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/00 ;
Abstract
A cascadable optical amplifier arrangement having a modular base amplifier arrangement (BVA) that is constructed in single-mode technology and has at least one amplifier stage (VS to VS ). At least one high-power amplifier stage (HVS ) that has its own active fiber (AF) and at least one pump signal source (PSQ , PSQ ) is connected to the at least one amplifier stage (VS ) of said base amplifier arrangement (BVA). In this way, a stepwise increase of the output power of an already existing base amplifier arrangement (BVA) can be achieved.