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Optical transmitter

US6333803A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 25, 1999
Grant dateDec 25, 2001
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Expiry dateJan 25, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B2210/258
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An optical transmitter provided with a supercontinuum light source 4 which is composed of an optical amplifier 2 made by using a polarization maintaining amplification fiber 1 and a polarization maintaining fiber 3 which has a length of at least a specified value, is connected to the output side of the optical amplifier 2 and emits light having a continuous wave and a stable plane of polarization, a polarization maintaining optical demultiplexer 5 which takes out a light with a desired wavelength from the continuous wave light, and an external modulator 6 which superposes desired information upon the light with the desired wavelength.

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