Patent 7809280 was granted and assigned to Finisar on October, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An optical transmitter comprising:an optical source modulated with an input digital data signal so as to generate a first, frequency-modulated digital signal; andan amplitude modulator, modulated with the logical inverse of the input digital data signal, for receiving the first, frequency-modulated signal and generating a second, amplitude-modulated and frequency-modulated digital signal;wherein the optical source and the amplitude modulator are each configured so as to produce positive transient chirp.