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Amplification with chalcogenide glass fiber

US6928227B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJul 12, 2001
Grant dateAug 9, 2005
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 30, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01S3/302
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

This invention pertains to an optical device and method for using a chalcogenide glass waveguide to amplify a pump light beam by means of stimulated Raman scattering and obtaining a depleted pump light beam and an amplified beam at a wavelength higher than the wavelength of the depleted pump light beam.

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