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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:
Apr. 21, 2009
Filed:
May. 17, 2007
Applicant:
Thomas D. Stephens, Brighton, AU;
Inventor:
Thomas D. Stephens, Brighton, AU;
Assignee:
Corvis Equipment Corporation, Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/17 (2006.01); H04B 10/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Optical systems of the present invention include first and second optical amplifiers that are operated individually to provide gain profiles that do not conform with a desired composite, or overall or total, gain profile, e.g., substantially flat, but to produce a desired composite noise figure profile, e.g., substantially flat or otherwise, for the amplifiers. Generally, the desired composite noise figure profile is produced, while attempting to minimize the deviation of the composite gain profile from the desired composite gain profile.