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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:
Aug. 08, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2005
Applicant:
Thomas D. Stephens, Brighton, AU;
Inventor:
Thomas D. Stephens, Brighton, AU;
Assignee:
Broadwing Corporation, Columbia, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Optical systems of the present invention includes power sources that provide dedicated and shared power to a plurality of optical amplification sections. In various embodiments, multiple optical pump sources are provided the include a plurality of optical sources, which supply dedicated optical pump power and shared optical pump power to two or more optical amplification sections. In other embodiments, remote dispersion compensation is performed and Raman amplification is provided to overcome at least a portion of the loss.