公开(公告)号：US06825973B1

公开(公告)日：2004-11-30

申请号：US10100617

申请日：2002-03-15

申请人： Andrej B. Puc ,  Michel W. Chbat ,  Jason D. Henrie ,  Sergey P. Burtsev ,  Frederic L. Barthelemy ,  Ned A. Weaver

发明人： Andrej B. Puc ,  Michel W. Chbat ,  Jason D. Henrie ,  Sergey P. Burtsev ,  Frederic L. Barthelemy ,  Ned A. Weaver

IPC分类号： H01S300

CPC分类号： H04B10/291 ,  H04B10/2525

摘要： An optical amplifier includes at least one amplification stage having a saturation recovery time of less than one (1) millisecond. The amplification stage includes a gain medium operable to receive at least one pump signal and to receive from a multiple span communication link an optical signal comprising a leading edge. The at least one pump signal and the optical signal travel in the same direction at approximately the same speed through at least a portion of the gain medium. In one particular embodiment the leading edge of the optical signal after passing through a plurality of amplifiers when received by a receiver coupled to the communication link comprises a peak power that is no more than ten times the average power of the optical signal at the receiver.

摘要翻译： 光放大器包括至少一个具有小于一（1）毫秒的饱和恢复时间的放大级。 放大级包括增益介质，其可操作以接收至少一个泵浦信号并且从多跨距通信链路接收包括前沿的光信号。 至少一个泵浦信号和光信号通过至少一部分增益介质以大致相同的速度在相同的方向上行进。 在一个特定实施例中，当由耦合到通信链路的接收器接收到之后，在通过多个放大器之后，光信号的前沿包括不超过接收机处的光信号的平均功率的10倍的峰值功率。