TEMPERATURE CONTROL FOR COILED GAIN FIBER IN FIBER AMPLIFIER

    公开(公告)号:US20240079839A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US17901749

    申请日:2022-09-01

    IPC分类号: H01S3/04 H01S3/02 H01S3/067

    摘要: A temperature controller is used for a gain fiber of a fiber amplifier. The controller includes a heat transfer structure and one or more temperature sinks, such as cooling plates. The heat transfer structure supports the gain fiber and is disposed in thermal contact with it. Portions of the temperature sink(s) are disposed in different thermal conductivity with sections of the heat transfer structure. For example, the sinks may have different material properties and/or material thicknesses. Also, portions of the temperature sink(s) can have different cooling rates. The different thermal conductivities conduct the heat from parts of the gain fiber differently from one another. In the end, an onset of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) on the laser light path can be mitigated by conducting heat from the gain fiber with the different thermal conductivities.

    Optical component array devices
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11747579B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-05

    申请号:US16909739

    申请日:2020-06-23

    IPC分类号: G02B6/42

    摘要: The present disclosure generally relates to devices, which may be used in communication or optoelectronic modules for example, suitable for arrayed positioning of a plurality of fiber optical components. In one form, an optoelectronic module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and at least one optical component array device including an array of laterally or radially spaced receptacles configured to receive an optical component. One or more of the receptacles includes a fused fiber optical component positioned therein. A recursive fiber may extend between an output of a first fused fiber optical component and an input of a second fused fiber optical component, and an optical fiber routing member may be coupled to the PCB and include a plurality of guides extending away from the PCB and defining a pathway for routing optical fibers relative to the PCB.

    Pump modulation for optical amplifier link communication

    公开(公告)号:US11588295B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-21

    申请号:US16672316

    申请日:2019-11-01

    摘要: A system and method for communicating supervisory information between amplifier nodes in an optical communication network utilizes modulation of an included pump source to superimpose the supervisory information on through-transmitted customer signals (or ASE associated with the amplifier if no customer traffic is present). The supervisory information (which may include monitoring messages, provisioning data, protocol updates, and the like) is utilized as an input to an included modulator, which then forms a drive signal for the pump controller. In a preferred embodiment, binary FSK modulation is used.

    Dual-Direction OTDR System for Inter-Node Communications

    公开(公告)号:US20220321212A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-06

    申请号:US17806892

    申请日:2022-06-14

    IPC分类号: H04B10/071 H04B10/25

    摘要: Modules for optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) are connected via at least one fiber link of a fiber optic communication network. The modules can perform OTDR operations on the at least one fiber link. In addition, the modules can establish an inter-node communication channel between each other on the at least one fiber link. The channel allows the OTDR modules to synchronize their OTDR operations and to exchange information, such as OTDR traces, between each other.