Patents Examined by Galen Hansen
  • Apparatus comprising optical pulse-generating means
    Patent number: 5040183
    Abstract: Disclosed is apparatus that comprises integrated colliding pulse mode-locked means for generating ultrashort optical pulses. The means advantageously are capable of producing transform-limited (or nearly transform-limited) pulses. Several exemplary embodiments are disclosed. Exemplarily the invention is embodied in InP-based integrated means that produced 1.4 ps pulses at a 32.6 GHz repetition rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventors: Young-Kai Chen, Ming-Chiang Wu