Inventors:
Mohammad Taghi Fatehi - Middletown NJ
Neil Jackman - Eatontown NJ
Andrew Jozan - Creamridge NJ
Virginia Laura Nichols - Aberdeen NJ
Sunita H. Patel - Marlboro NJ
Mario Alberto Restrepo - Ocean NJ
Ravindra K. Vora - Freehold NJ
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ
International Classification:
H01J 330
G02B 626
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.