Patents by Inventor Curtis R. Menvuk

Curtis R. Menvuk 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).

  • Patent number: 6407841
    Abstract: Collisions between solitons in different frequency channels are one of the major sources of errors in transmission systems that utilize wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). Moreover, because standard transmission lines have lumped amplification, the four-wave mixing fields from soliton collisions grow uncontrollably, adding amplitude and timing jitter to the jitter due to ideal soliton collisions. These problems are addressed by using a specific dispersion map to implement dispersion management, by which it is possible to significantly reduce the collision-induced timing jitter and to improve system performance even in comparison with that provided by an ideal, exponentially decreasing dispersion fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: University of Maryland Baltimore County
    Inventors: Ekaterina A. Golovchenko, Alexei N. Pilipetskii, Curtis R. Menvuk