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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2015
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Zhiliang Yuan, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Bernd Matthias Frohlich, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Andrew James Shields, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Marco Lucamarini, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Joanna Krystyna Skiba-Szymanska, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical device, comprising an optical component, configured to produce optical amplification; a component configured to intermittently supply coherent light to said optical component; and a controller, configured to apply a time varying signal to said optical component such that a plurality of light pulses are emitted during each period of time that said coherent light is received, wherein the plurality of light pulses emitted during each period have a fixed phase relation.