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(12) United States Patent

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(io) Patent No.: (45) Date of Patent:

US 7,792,432 B2 *Sep. 7, 2010

(54) EXTERNALLY MODULATED LASER

OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM WITH
FEED FORWARD NOISE CANCELLATION

(75) Inventor: John Iannelli, San Marino, CA (US)

(73) Assignee: Emcore Corporation, Albuquerque, NM (US)

( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 640 days.

This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.

(21) Appl.No.: 11/729,255

(22) Filed: Mar. 28, 2007

(65) Prior Publication Data

US 2007/0206962 Al Sep. 6, 2007

Related U.S. Application Data

(63) Continuation-in-part of application No. 11/701,742, filed on Feb. 2, 2007, and a continuation-in-part of application No. 11/366,936, filed on Mar. 2, 2006.

(51) Int. CI.

H04B 10/04 (2006.01)

(52) U.S. CI 398/182; 398/183; 398/188

(58) Field of Classification Search 398/182 201

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