Optical fibre amplifier and laser
CA 2090679 C · Owner: Hanna, David Colin · Inventors: Hanna, David Colin; Tropper, Anne Christine; Smart, Richard Gordon
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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An optical fire amplifier comprises a thulium-doped optical fibre (2) pumped at 790 nm by a semi-conductor diode laser (20) coupled to the fibre (2) via optical fibre coupler (12). The amplifier (2) is optically coupled in series to a pair of systems fibres (18 and 14) to provide amplification to optical signals.
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- Filed September 3, 1991 and granted November 11, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 3, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by September 3, 2013.
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