Amplified optical fibre systems

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1991-10-29

1993-03-16

Lee, John D.

Optical waveguides

Optical fiber waveguide with cladding

385124, 372 6, G02B 618

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051951606

ABSTRACT:
In order to achieve increased spacing between amplifiers in soliton transmission systems, it is proposed to use distributed amplifiers, whereby the fibre is a continuous amplifier, rather than or in addition to the conventional lumped amplifiers. This is achieved by using rare earth, for example, erbium doped fibre as the or part of the transmission fibre (4; 4, 7) for the solitons and arranging that the erbium doped fibre appears substantially lossless to input soliton pulses. The latter can be achieved by varying the erbium concentration along the fibre length and providing appropriate optical pumping (5) for the erbium doped fibre. Alternatively, the output of the pump (5) for the fibre can itself be pumped (5a) whereby to replenish the pump power lost to the erbium doped fibre.

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patent: 5048026 (1991-09-01), Shaw et al.
patent: 5058974 (1991-10-01), Mollenauer
patent: 5058976 (1991-10-01), DiGiovanni et al.

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