US Patent Issued to Ciena on April 7 for "Determination of optical performance of distributed Raman amplifiers using deep neural networks" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,997, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Determination of optical performance of distributed Raman amplifiers using deep neural networks" was invented by Jeff Gar Don Wong (Nepean, Canada), Connie Ruth Sutherland (Nepean, Canada) and Petar Djukic (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include receiving inputs comprising a Raman gain target for a Raman amplifier, fiber parameters, and fiber characteristics, each for an optical span; analyzing the inputs with a deep neural network (DNN) having a plurality of layers; providing a plurality of outputs from the DNN; and utilizing the pluralit...