Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Devine, Millinet & Brandi
  • System and method for increasing capacity of long-haul optical transmission systems
    Patent number: 6697575
    Abstract: A method of increasing capacity on a long-haul undersea cable system having at least one optical fiber, said method comprising interleaving counter-propagating forward-propagating and backward-propagating signals in forward and backward channels on a common optical fiber, wherein the wavelength offset between said forward and backward channels is typically half of the channel spacing of co-propagating signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Tyco Telecommunications (US) Inc.
    Inventors: Anhui Liang, Chinlon Lin, Bo Pedersen