Patents by Inventor Virginia Laura Nichols

Virginia Laura Nichols has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Shared-pump multi-fiber optical amplifier
    Patent number: 6008934
    Abstract: The subject matter is directed to a parallel array of optical amplifiers and is also directed to equally sharing the optical power supplied by a plurality of optical pumps among the array of optical amplifiers such that if one of the pumps fails the power outputted by the remaining pumps is still equally shared among the array of optical amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Taghi Fatehi, Neil Jackman, Andrew Jozan, Virginia Laura Nichols, Sunita H. Patel, Mario Alberto Restrepo, Ravindra K. Vora