ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,105, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).
"Optical burst transmitter" was invented by Yasuhiko Nakanishi (Musashino, Japan), Shigeru Kanazawa (Musashino, Japan), Toshihide Yoshimatsu (Musashino, Japan) and Atsushi Kanda (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A highly efficient optical burst transmitter is provided. An embodiment is an optical burst transmitter including a control circuit configured to output a data signal and a burst control signal and a semiconductor optical amplifier configured to output an optical data signal modulated using the data signal as an optical burs...