Patent ID: 6594420
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: H01S

Abstract:
A multi-fiber ribbon-coupled optical amplifier comprising:a multi-channel optical waveguide substrate having a planar surface and having a plurality of optical waveguide amplifier channels arranged to be optically coupled with respective ones of a plurality of optical fibers of a multi-fiber ribbon over which respective light beam signals are transportable; and a multi-channel optical interface having a planar surface abutting the planar surface of the substrate and configured to focus and redirect optical energy supplied by a plurality of optical pumping sources into respective ones of said plurality of optical waveguide amplifier channels of said multi-channel optical amplifier from a direction that is generally spatially traverse to said optical waveguide amplifier channels, so as to provide optical energy amplification of said respective light beam signals traveling through said optical waveguide amplifier channels of said multi-channel optical waveguide structure.