Patents Examined by Dibson Sanchez
  • Patent number: 10187149
    Abstract: Per-port performance optimization may be provided. First, performance data may be received corresponding to each of a plurality of ports. Then it may be determined that performance of at least one of the plurality of ports can be improved based on the received performance data corresponding to the least one of the plurality of ports. Next, in response to determining that the performance of the at least one of the plurality of ports can be improved, at least one of a plurality of components may be adjusted corresponding to the at least one of the plurality of ports to improve performance of the least one of the plurality of ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Huang Ping, John Alexander Ritchie, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10142048
    Abstract: It is intended to suppress the deterioration of the transmission quality of an optical signal propagating through an optical fiber due to the intensity variation of a control signal. An exemplary aspect of the present invention includes outputting main signal light; generating a first optical signal by intensity-modulating an optical signal depending on a control signal; generating a second optical signal by intensity-modulating an optical signal depending on a differential component between a prescribed signal having a constant intensity and the control signal; outputting a wavelength-multiplexed optical signal by multiplexing the first optical signal being generated and the second optical signal being generated; and transmitting a transmitting signal by multiplexing the output main signal light being output and the wavelength-multiplexed optical signal being output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takanori Inoue
  • Patent number: 10135545
    Abstract: An optical receiver module includes a light receiving element that has a first electrode and a second electrode for receiving a bias and converts an optical signal inputted into an electrical signal to output the electrical signal via the first electrode. A signal line extends from the first electrode through the light receiving element-side signal pad and the second wire to the amplifier-side signal pad. A bias line extends from the second electrode through the light receiving element-side bias pad, the first wire, and the third wire to the first and second amplifier-side bias pads. The signal line three-dimensionally intersects with the bias line at an interval in a direction of the loop height of the first wire and that of the second wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Oclaro Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Takuma Ban, Kazuhiro Komatsu
  • Patent number: 10122447
    Abstract: It is impossible to prevent the deterioration of the coupling efficiency between received light and a single mode fiber, and difficult to achieve a higher transmission rate, with respect to a free space optical communication receiver; therefore, a free space optical receiver according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes light collecting means for collecting laser light having propagated through a free space transmission path; mode controlling means for separating the laser light collected by the light collecting means into a plurality of propagation mode beams depending on a wave-front fluctuation of the laser light and outputting the propagation mode beams; a plurality of single mode transmission media for guiding the plurality of propagation mode beams, respectively; and a plurality of light receiving means for receiving the plurality of propagation mode beams respectively through the plurality of single mode transmission media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seigo Takahashi, Toshiharu Ito, Kohei Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 10120210
    Abstract: A device and method of optical equalization using an optical modulator is provided. An electrical modulation signal is split into a first modulation signal and a second modulation signal. The second modulation signal is delayed relative to the first modulation signal. An amplitude of the second modulation signal is attenuated relative to the first modulation signal. The first modulation signal is applied to a first waveguide segment of the optical modulator. The second modulation signal that is delayed and attenuated relative to the first modulation signal is applied to a second waveguide segment of the optical modulator. Both the applied first and second modulation signals generate a feed-forward equalized optical signal that is recombined in the optical domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicolas Dupuis, Tam N. Huynh, Benjamin G. Lee, Jonathan E. Proesel, Renato Rimolo-Donadio, Alexander V. Rylyakov, Clint L. Schow
  • Patent number: 10116431
    Abstract: The present application relates to an optical communication transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus. The optical communication transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder, configured to encode and shunt an input signal, to generate multiple synchronous encoded signals; a driver, configured to amplify the multiple encoded signals, to generate multiple drive signals; and multiple light sources, configured to generate multiple synchronous optical signals when driven by the multiple drive signals. The optical communication transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus provided in the present application make full use of advantages of visible light communication, achieving a rapid communication speed and high security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: KUANG-CHI INTELLIGENT PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Ruopeng Liu, Weizi Huang, Weicheng Xu, Linyong Fan, Zhiwei Pan
  • Patent number: 10097908
    Abstract: An optical signal module including a driver and an optical signal module. The driver includes a differential pair configured to receive and process an input signal to create a drive signal. A modulation current source provides a modulation current to the differential pair. One or more termination resistors connected to the differential pair for impedance matching. A first switch, responsive to a first control signal, maintains charge on a charge storage device. The optical signal module includes an optical signal generator arranged between a supply voltage node and a bias current node. The optical signal generator receives the drive signal and generates an optical signal representing the input signal. A second switch is between a supply voltage node the bias current node. The second switch, responsive to second control signal, selectively establishes a short between the supply voltage node the bias current node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Matteo Troiani, Cristiano Bazzani, Yanxin Will Wang, Kevin McDonald, Atul Gupta
  • Patent number: 10063337
    Abstract: An arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) based multi-core and multi-wavelength interconnection network, comprising N upper-level switches, N lower-level switches, and a network intermediate stage, with each upper- and lower-level switches has N CWDM optical transceiving modules. The N optical transceiving modules of each upper-level switch is connected with n m×1 multi-core optical multiplexing modules, the N optical transceiving modules of each lower-level switch is connected with n 1×m multi-core demultiplexing modules, the network intermediate stage is comprised of n2 r×r multi-core and multi-wavelength wiring modules. The upper-level multi-core optical multiplexing modules, the lower-level multi-core demultiplexing modules, and the n2 r×r multi-core and multi-wavelength wiring modules of the network intermediate stage are connected via an m-core MPO-MPO optical fiber jumper. The wiring complexity of the interconnection network is O(N2/r), with employment of a wavelength set of ?={?0, . . . , ?k-1}.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Inventors: Tong Ye, Kui Chen, Hao He, Weisheng Hu
  • Patent number: 10063411
    Abstract: A multi-wavelength passive optical network (MW-PON) includes an optical distribution network (ODN), a plurality of optical line terminations (OLTs) and an optical network unit (ONU). The ODN includes a trunk fiber, one or more branching elements, and a plurality of distribution fibers. Each OLT is associated with an individual bi-directional wavelength channel using a corresponding single downstream wavelength and a corresponding single upstream wavelength, and supporting a specific downstream line rate and one or more distinct upstream line rates. The ONU is communicatively coupled to a respective distribution fiber, being tunable over a specific range of downstream wavelengths and a specific range of upstream wavelengths, and supporting a specific downstream line rate and a specific upstream line rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignees: ZTE Corporation, ZTE (USA) Inc.
    Inventors: Denis Andreyevich Khotimsky, Dan Geng, DeZhi Zhang, LiQuan Yuan
  • Patent number: 10042190
    Abstract: A Dual Parallel (DP)-Inphase/Quadrature (I/Q) Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM) bias controller configured to generate a pair of orthogonal dither signals; multiply the pair of dither signals to create a second order orthogonal dither signal; and lock an Inphase (I) I MZM of a DP-I/Q MZM to a value of a corresponding I component of a transmission signal by applying the pair of orthogonal dither signal to a Quadrature (Q) MZM and a Phase (P) MZM of the DP-I/Q MZM; applying an I bias signal to the I MZM of the DP-I/Q MZM; detecting an output of the DP-I/Q MZM; and determining an I error signal in the output of the I MZM of the DP-I/Q MZM based on the product of second order dither signal and the output of the DP-I/Q MZM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tiangong Liu, Hongbing Lei, Xiao Shen
  • Patent number: 10038497
    Abstract: An optical communications system includes a modulator/demodulator (modem) to transmit outgoing communications data and to receive incoming communications data in a transceiver. A main detector is coupled to the modem to convert an optical signal representing the incoming communications data to an electrical signal for the modem. An adaptive data rate processor monitors the electrical signal from the main detector to determine a current power level for the optical signal. The adaptive data rate processor dynamically adjusts a data rate of the modem based on the determined current power level of the optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Northrup Grumman Systems Corporation
    Inventors: John Featherston, Christopher A. Archer, James M. Cicchiello
  • Patent number: 10027408
    Abstract: An optical transmitter transmits to an optical receiver a multi-carrier modulated signal light by driving a light source with a modulated signal modulated with a multi-carrier modulation scheme. The optical receiver monitors reception characteristic of any of subcarrier signals included in the modulated signal and transmits a monitor result to the optical transmitter. The optical transmitter controls drive conditions of the light source based on the monitor result received from the optical receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masato Nishihara, Toshiki Tanaka, Yutaka Kai, Tomoo Takahara
  • Patent number: 10027416
    Abstract: Methods of decoding N superimposed coherent optical transmission modes transmitted along a multimode optical fiber are provided where the optical signal detector comprises coherent detection hardware and a digital signal processor. The optical signals are split into N optical detection channels of the coherent detection hardware, which is used to measure the phase and amplitude of the output optical signals as a vector field matrix [ê]1×n. The digital signal processor determines the output principal states [PSout]1×n of the output optical signals from the principal state eigenvectors of an output matrix corresponding to the N propagating optical signals at the receiving portion of the data transmission link and extracts the input optical signals [M]In from the output optical signals using the output principal states [PSout]1×n, the vector field matrix [ê]1×n of the output optical signals, and a time delay ? of each output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert R Alfano, Giovanni Milione, Daniel Aloysius Nolan
  • Patent number: 10014953
    Abstract: An optical receiver circuit includes: a substrate; and an optical waveguide device that is formed on the substrate. The optical waveguide device includes: a first optical splitter section branching the signal light into a first signal light propagation waveguide and a second signal light propagation waveguide and; a second optical splitter section branching the local-oscillator light into a first local-oscillator light propagation waveguide and a second local-oscillator light propagation waveguide; a first optical coupler section that combines the signal light propagating through the first signal light propagation waveguide and the local-oscillator light propagating through the first local-oscillator light propagation waveguide with each other; a second optical coupler section that combines the signal light propagating through the second signal light propagation waveguide and the local-oscillator light propagating through the second local-oscillator light propagation waveguide with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventor: Kensuke Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10009112
    Abstract: A method of reducing electromagnetic interference in a multi-channel transmitter is described. The method may include receiving multiple signals configured to be transmitted through multiple channels. The method may additionally include adjusting delays of the multiple signals to generate multiple delayed signals. Each two adjacent delayed signals may be configured to have a corresponding phase difference that satisfies a phase delay requirement. The method may additionally include generating multiple load signals from the multiple delayed signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: FINISAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yongshan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10009136
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for an external cavity FP laser. In one aspect, an apparatus is provided that includes a FP laser diode; a Faraday rotator (FR) coupled to receive an optical output of the FP laser diode and that rotates a polarization of the optical output; an optical fiber coupled at a first end to receive the output of the FR; a WDM filter coupled to a second end of the optical fiber to receive the optical signal from the optical fiber; and a FRM coupled directly or indirectly to an output of the WDM filter, wherein an optical output of the WDM filter is partially reflected by the FRM such that the polarization of a reflected beam is rotated, and wherein the reflected optical signal then passes through the FR with its polarization being rotated by the FR before it is injected back into the FP laser diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Oplink Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Zuon-Min Chuang, Rang-Chen Yu, Domenico DiMola, Sung-Ping Huang
  • Patent number: 10003428
    Abstract: A method of Noisy Window and associated management messages to support set splitting if activating ONUs with uncalibrated transmitter, offering a power grant for unmodulated upstream transmission, measuring the average received optical power in all upstream wavelength channels and providing downstream indication of the upstream wavelength channel with abnormally high average received power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignees: ZTE Corporation, ZTE (USA) Inc.
    Inventors: Denis Andreyevich Khotimsky, SongLin Zhu, DeZhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10002528
    Abstract: A method for operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes converting received infrared into an electrical signal, amplifying the electrical signal and outputting an analog signal, converting the analog signal into digital data, determining whether the digital data is valid, and activating an application program in a freeze state to be in an unfreeze state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Woo-Sung Chun
  • Patent number: 10003133
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system for full-duplex data transmission using polarization multiplexing comprises a central station having a first means for processing downlink signals and a second means for processing uplink signals, and a remote antenna unit connected to the central station via a transmission medium, having a third means for processing downlink signals and a fourth means for processing uplink signals, characterised in that the remote antenna unit is configured to receive downlink signals from the central station, and then to split a portion of the downlink signals to be used as uplink data transmission simultaneously with transmission of the downlink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Telekom Malaysia Berhad
    Inventors: Thavamaran Kanesan, Farha Binti Maskuriy, Mohd Azmi Bin Ismail, Mohd Hafiz Bin Mohamad Nor, Hizamel Bin Mohd Hizan, Romli Bin Mohamad, Sufian Mousa Ibrahim Mitani
  • Patent number: 10003423
    Abstract: An optical transmitter transmits an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol in which only one-half of available subcarriers are modulated with data and the remaining subcarriers are suppressed by not modulating with data. The transmission is of duration equal to half the symbol period of the OFDM symbol, resulting in a half-cycle transmission. An optical receiver receives the half-cycle transmission OFDM symbol, regenerates the full time domain representation and recovers data modulated on the one-half of available subcarriers. The modulated subcarriers and the suppressed subcarriers alternate in the frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE (USA) Inc.
    Inventors: Jianjun Yu, Fan Li