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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:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2005
Applicants:
Hongxing Dai, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Peng Wang, Shanghai, CN;
Jinpin Ying, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Hongxing Dai, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Peng Wang, Shanghai, CN;
Jinpin Ying, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 5/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/17 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system includes a pulse reshaper for reshaping and re-amplifying optical signals in a communications network. In one embodiment, a vertical cavity semiconductor optical amplifier (VCSOA) device, comprising dual mode reflectors optically cooperating at each of an input signal wavelength (λ) and an offset wavelength (λ) proximate the input signal wavelength (λ) to provide thereby non-linear amplification of input signal (λ).