Abstract: An optical module includes a transmitter assembly; a receiver assembly; and circuitry connected to the transmitter assembly and the receiver assembly, wherein the circuitry includes one or more delay elements each configured to add a respective configured amount of delay in one or more of a transmit direction and a receive direction within the optical module. The optical module includes (1) a transmit direction from a host device through the circuitry and the transmitter assembly, and (2) a receive direction to the host device from the receiver assembly and through the circuitry. The one or more delay elements can be configured to introduce a delay in one or both directions to minimize the delay uncertainty associated with the optical module as well as the delay uncertainty on a given link (connection formed between two optical modules).

Abstract: Software-defined networking and network function virtualization constructs are leveraged across diverse portions of 5G network infrastructure including radio access network, mobile core, and wide area network to enable a security property to be implemented for a network slice from end-to-end to provide for strong logical and/or physical isolation of slice traffic from other network traffic. One or more network slice controllers are implemented in the 5G network that are interoperable as separate elements, or under centralized control, to enable the underlying diverse network infrastructure to be abstracted and virtualized so that infrastructure properties can be mapped across infrastructure types for the end-to-end slice.

Abstract: There is herein provided a method of controlling the frequency of operation of a component of a telecommunications network, the method including combining a first signal and a second signal to form a heterodyne signal, transmitting the heterodyne signal from a first node of the telecommunications network, detecting the transmitted heterodyne signal at a second node of the telecommunications network, and controlling a frequency of operation of a component of the telecommunications network using a frequency of the detected heterodyne signal.

Abstract: Provided are apparatus and method for slicing resources in passive optical network systems. The method includes identifying network elements included in a plurality of physical passive optical networks (pPONs), abstracting the identified network elements so that the identified network elements are recognized as the same software (SW) block, generating a plurality of PON slices by performing PON slicing on the abstracted network elements in accordance with a predetermined reference, and generating a plurality of virtual PONs (vPONs) by mapping the plurality of PON slices to at least one network element. The predetermined reference is determined on the basis of an attribute of at least one of ports and transmission containers (T-CONTs) corresponding to the identified network elements, and the at least one network element includes an optical network unit (ONU).

Abstract: The invention herein is a method for transferring data between a docking station and a user device via LiFi. The docking station/user device comprises at least one LiFi transceivers, and the user device/docking station comprises at least one LiFi transceiver. The method comprising the steps of acquiring by the docking station/user device a first communication channel transfer property, the first communication channel being between a first LiFi transceiver of the docking station/user device and a first LiFi transceiver of the user device/docking station. Acquiring by the docking station/user device a second communication channel transfer property, the second communication channel being between a second LiFi transceiver of the docking station/user device and the first LiFi transceiver of the user device/docking station.

Abstract: Disclosed is a signal processing method for a distributed acoustic sensing system (DAS), including receiving a set of scattered signals, each of which was scattered at a different location along an optical path and corresponds to a respective spatial channel. Each scattered signal is interfered with a local oscillator signal, and processed to generate a complex carrier signal whose modulation is related to an instantaneous frequency of an acoustic modulation at the scattering location. In order to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), complex carrier signals from multiple spatial channels are summed together, so that an instantaneous frequency corresponding to those channels can be estimated. The generation each complex carrier signal involves using a reference complex carrier signal for that channel. When the estimated instantaneous frequency corresponding to a set of spatial channels fulfils a predetermined condition, the reference complex carrier signal for those spatial channels is updated.

Abstract: In-network Optical Inference (IOI) provides low-latency machine learning inference by leveraging programmable switches and optical matrix multiplication. IOI uses a transceiver module, called a Neuro Transceiver, with an optical processor to perform linear operations, such as matrix multiplication, in the optical domain. IOI's transceiver modules can be plugged into programmable packet switches, which are programmed to perform non-linear activations in the electronic domain and to respond to inference queries. Processing inference queries at the programmable packet switches inside the network, without sending them to cloud or edge inference servers, significantly reduces end-to-end inference latency experienced by users.

Abstract: Various example embodiments for providing a passive optical network (PON), supporting communications between an optical line terminal (OLT) and a set of optical network units (ONUs) of a PON, are presented. The PON may be enabled based on use of an optical frequency comb (OFC), generated at the OLT and reconstructed at the ONUs for locking the OFC at the ONUs to the OFC at the OLT. The OFC may include a set of optical frequency lines used as seed lines for reconstruction of the OFC at the ONUs (e.g., the pair of OFC lines at the center of the OFC which may be used to regenerate locked OFCs at the ONUs), a set of optical frequency lines used to support downstream communications from the OLT to the ONUs, and a set of optical frequency lines used to support upstream communications from the ONUs to the OLT.

Abstract: A communication device includes a first laser driver, a second laser driver, a light emitting and receiving component, and a processor. The light emitting and receiving component is connected to a passive optical network to send and/or receive an optical signal. The light emitting and receiving component converts the optical signal into a first electrical signal and outputs the first electrical signal to one of the first laser driver and the second laser driver. One of the first laser driver and the second laser driver converts the first electrical signal into a second electrical signal, and outputs the second electrical signal to the processor. The processor disables another one of the first laser driver and the second laser driver.

Abstract: An optical imager with subcarrier multiplexing uses a source transmit beam to simultaneously emit SFM transmit beams towards a target and receives SFM receive beams reflected off the target. The SFM receive beams are combined to provide a total receive beam, and the total receive beam is combined with a reference beam having the same frequency modulation as the source transmit beam to provide a receive signal that is configured for extraction of image data associated with the target.

Abstract: An optical communication system includes a sending device, an optical cross-connect (OXC) device, and a first receiving device. The sending device is configured to send a modulated first service optical signal to the OXC device. The OXC device is configured to receive the modulated first service optical signal through a first input port, and divide the modulated first service optical signal into N1 first optical signals based on a wavelength. The OXC device is configured to send M1 first optical signals to the first receiving device through M1 first output ports.

Abstract: An optical communication device may include a driver component, arranged to achieve a driving voltage, and a modulator component, including a laser or arranged to receive light from a laser. The modulator component may be arranged to achieve a modulated light signal modulated based on the driving voltage. The device may include a transmission line arranged to transfer the driving voltage between the driver component and the modulator component. The transmission line may not impedance matched to the driver component, the transmission line may have an impedance which is at least 20% lower than an output impedance of the driver component, and the transmission line may be impedance matched with respect to signal reflections to the modulator component.

Abstract: A frequency domain filter receives an input signal in a frequency domain being blocked by an overlap-save method. The frequency domain filter multiplies the input signal in the frequency domain by a coefficient for each frequency. A coefficient updating unit adaptively updates a filter coefficient of the frequency domain filter. A constraint operation unit performs an operation of a constraint on a filter coefficient of the frequency domain filter in such a way as not to be affected by distortion caused by wraparound from both ends of a block to the output signal. A frequency at which the constraint operation unit performs the operation of the constraint is lower than a frequency at which the coefficient updating unit adaptively updates the filter coefficient of the frequency domain filter.

Abstract: The invention relates to a data transmission method, comprising the steps of: generating from a data stream to be transmitted, a plurality of frequency-domain digital sample streams, each digital sample stream modulating a respective subcarrier defining a respective subcarrier channel, converting the frequency-domain sample streams into temporal sample streams, by an inverse spectral transform, combining the temporal sample streams into a composite stream, frequency-shifting the composite stream using a digital oscillator at an intermediate frequency above 1 GHz, converting the shifted composite stream into an analog signal, frequency-shifting the analog signal to a carrier frequency above 2 GHz using an analog oscillator at a carrier frequency, filtering the analog signal to attenuate the carrier frequency, and transmitting the filtered signal via an antenna.

Abstract: Various examples are provided related to single channel and multi-channel radio frequency (RF) steganography. In one example, a method includes generating an amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) broadband signal; spectrally slicing the ASE broadband light to achieve taps for generating a dynamic photonic finite impulse response in an RF domain; generating a stealth-modulated broadband optical carrier by combining a stealth signal with the spectrally sliced ASE broadband light; passing the stealth-modulated broadband optical carrier to a dispersive medium to achieve the dynamic photonic FIR in the RF domain; and transmitting the stealth-modulated optical comb carrier via a transmission fiber. The ASE broadband light can have wavelength and intensity corresponding to background noise of a photonic system. In another example, a system for RF steganography includes a stealth transmitter.

Abstract: An optical transceiver (101) of an optical relay apparatus includes: a coherent reception front-end unit (110) that coherently detects an input optical signal to be input, based on local oscillation light, and outputs the coherently detected first analog electric signal; a coherent transmission front-end unit (120) that coherently modulates a second analog electric signal acquired by turning around the first analog electric signal, based on transmission light, and outputs the coherently modulated output optical signal; and an analog compensation unit (130) that performs analog signal processing on the first analog electric signal in such a way as to compensate for signal quality according to a signal characteristic between an input of the coherent reception front-end unit (110) and an output of the coherent transmission front-end unit (120), and thereby generates the second analog electric signal.

Abstract: An optical transceiver includes optical circuitry disposed on a substrate and comprising a transmitter and a receiver. The circuitry includes least one multi-mode interferometer (MMI), including a multi-mode waveguide comprising an input face and an output face, the input and output faces being bisected by a longitudinal axis, the multi-mode waveguide having a predefined width transverse to the longitudinal axis. Ports are coupled to respective waveguides and are configured to launch one or more input beams through the input face and receive one or more output beams from the output face. The ports include, on at least one of the faces, two or more ports at respective locations that are offset transversely from the longitudinal axis by at least ?0/300 from respective base transverse displacements that are equal to integer fractions of the width.

Abstract: A 6.4 Tbps silicon-based photonics engine transceiver chip module for high-speed optical communication manufactured based on processing techniques of semiconductors such as silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and indium phosphide (InP). The photonics engine transceiver chip module uses a silicon photonic chip as a substrate, and optical chips of an InP laser and an optical amplifier are heterogeneously integrated with the silicon photonic chip through bonding or flip-chip soldering. As a pump light source, the laser generates a soliton-based optical frequency comb by using an ultra-low loss silicon nitride (SiN) resonator cavity, and can be used as a multi-wavelength laser. This reduces use of a single-wavelength laser chip, reduces a power consumption and heat conduction of a laser in an optical chip of a photonic engine, and improves an integration level of an optical device. The optical frequency comb generates an optical carrier with wide bandwidth coverage and a large quantity of wavelengths.

Abstract: The present application discloses a port mode switching method, an apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium, where the method includes: when determining that a target port mode corresponding to a module type is different from a current port mode, switching a port from the current port mode to the target port mode according to a port mode switching manner set corresponding to the module type, wherein the port mode comprises a passive optical network PON mode and an Ethernet mode.

Abstract: A host module configured for insertion into a chassis of a network element includes a Printed Circuit Board (PCB); a plurality of rails disposed on the PCB, for housing one or more universal sub slot modules on the host module, wherein the plurality of rails are for guiding a universal sub slot module during insertion and for stabilization thereof; and a faceplate disposed to the PCB and including one or more openings each for the one or more universal sub slot modules, wherein the PCB communicates to each of the one or more universal sub slot modules via a plurality of high-speed links that are at least 28 Gbps each. At least one of the one or more universal sub slot modules can be a coherent modem or a router.