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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2011
Larry Michael Wolfrum, Naperville, IL (US);
Julia Y. Larikova, Naperville, IL (US);
Richard Cleveland Younce, Yorkville, IL (US);
Larry Michael Wolfrum, Naperville, IL (US);
Julia Y. Larikova, Naperville, IL (US);
Richard Cleveland Younce, Yorkville, IL (US);
Tellabs Operations, Inc., Naperville, IL (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the invention comprises determining a gain tilt based on power measurements from a power measurement block, determining a noise figure penalty based on the gain tilt, determining a gain tilt compensation to compensate for the gain tilt taking into account the noise figure penalty, and communicating the gain tilt compensation to an amplifier block to apply the gain tilt compensation to subsequently received wavelengths.