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Multiwavelength mode-locked dense wavelength division multiplexed optical communication systems

  • US 6,014,237 A
  • Filed: 11/03/1998
  • Issued: 01/11/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A wavelength ordered repetitive periodic dense wavelength division multiplexed (WORP-DWDM) optical source, comprising:

  • a multiwavelength mode-locked (MWML) laser source including a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) disposed in a cavity of said MWML laser source, said SOA being actively driven by a radio frequency (RF) signal and emitting periodic pulses within a plurality of discrete wavelength bands simultaneously at a port of said MWML laser source, where the RF signal oscillates at a frequency whereby one of said frequency and a sub-harmonic of said frequency substantially equals the inverse of the round trip travel time of pulses circulating within a cavity of said MWML laser source; and

    a temporal dispersion element which time shifts said plurality of wavelengths by differential wavelength-dependent delays so as to transform pulses emitted by said MWML laser source into a wavelength ordered repetitive periodic (WORP) sequence of optical pulses.

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