US Patent Issued to Ciena on Dec. 9 for "Optical link optimization based on signal and interferer power discrimination" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,842, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Optical link optimization based on signal and interferer power discrimination" was invented by Tom Luk (Ottawa) and David W. Boertjes (Nepean, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical link optimization includes receiving detected power outputs from one or more receivers in an optical network, wherein the detected power outputs include both a broad bandwidth power component and a low bandwidth power component; analyzing the detected power outputs to one or more of (1) balance power of a channel of interest for the one or more receivers and associated adjacent c...