Patents Examined by David G Payne
  • Patent number: 11405702
    Abstract: An optical signal processing device is described herein for reducing electric wirings in an optical switch or an optical filter realized using an optical waveguide. The optical signal processing device includes an optical waveguide formed on a substrate. In the optical signal processing device, the optical waveguide includes at least one input port and at least one output port, a plurality of driven elements are provided including a phase shifter that produces a phase shift to an optical signal from the input port, each of the driven elements includes at least two control terminals, control wirings are provided to have control signals being time-division synchronized applied between the two control terminals, and the control wiring for accessing the driven element is shared by the plurality of driven elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Yamaguchi, Kenya Suzuki, Takashi Go, Osamu Moriwaki, Ai Yanagihara
  • Patent number: 11290191
    Abstract: An optical receiver including an optical resonator and a steering mechanism coupled to the at least one optical resonator is disclosed. The optical resonator is configured to receive a phase modulated input optical signal and to produce an intensity modulated output optical signal. An intensity modulation of the output optical signal is representative of the phase modulation of the input optical signal. The optical receiver further comprises an optical-electrical converter that detects the intensity modulated output optical signal and converts the intensity modulated output optical signal to an electrical signal, and signal processor that receives the electrical signal, performs symmetric phase change measurements based on the electrical signal, and provides a control signal to actuate the steering mechanism to steer the optical resonator to maintain normal incidence of the phase modulated input optical signal on a surface of at least one optical resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Gary M. Graceffo, Andrew Kowalevicz, Benjamin P. Dolgin
  • Patent number: 11277206
    Abstract: A transmitter maps an N-bit sequence to a point selected from a four-dimensional (4D) constellation consisting of 2N points which form a subset of a Cartesian product of first and second two-dimensional (2D) constellations, the first constellation consisting of M1 points divided into first, second, and third points, and the second constellation consisting of M2 points divided into fourth, fifth, and sixth points, wherein M1, M2?5, and wherein log2(M1×M2)>N. The subset includes any 4D point that is generated by combining any one of the M1 points and any one of the fourth points; includes any 4D point that is generated by combining any one of the first points and any one of M2 points; and excludes any 4D point that is generated by combining any third point and any sixth point. An optical signal representing the selected point is transmitted to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Shahab Oveis Gharan, Michael Andrew Reimer, James St. Leger Harley
  • Patent number: 11265628
    Abstract: [PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED] To uninterruptedly change a band of an optical transmission path in a line IF section, which relays a signal transmitted to an optical transmission path in a client IF section to which a communication terminal is connected, to the same band as a changed band in the client IF section without suspending the communication in the line IF section. [SOLUTION] An optical transmission system 10A performs processing for changing a band of an optical fiber 15 in a line IF section (L section) that relays a signal from an optical fiber 12 in a client IF section (C section) to the same band as that in the C section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Araya, Yoshihiko Uematsu, Toshiyuki Oka, Hiroki Kawahara, Hiroshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11218242
    Abstract: An in-packaged multi-channel light engine is packaged for four or more sub-assemblies of optical-electrical sub-modules. Each is assembled with at least four laser chips, one or more driver chip, and one or more trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) chip separately flip-mounted on a silicon photonics interposer and is coupled to an optical interface block and an electrical interface block on a sub-module substrate. The in-packaged multi-channel light engine further includes a first frame fixture holding the four or more sub-assemblies and a second frame fixture configured to hold the first frame fixture with the four or more sub-assemblies. The in-packaged multi-channel light engine further includes an interposer plate inserted between the sub-module substrates and a module substrate and is compressed between a backplate member attached to a bottom side of the module substrate and a top plate member configured as a heatsink with a plurality of fin structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE, LTD.
    Inventors: Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan, Liang Ding, Mark Patterson, Roberto Coccioli
  • Patent number: 11201673
    Abstract: An optical communications transmitter for use in free space communication from the transmitter to a receiver, the transmitter including a light input and an optical fiber array for directing the light input. The optical communications transmitter further includes an optical phased array for receiving the light input from the optical fiber array and transmitting a light output, the optical phased array being configured for modifying a relative phase of the light input such that the light output exhibits a predetermined far-field intensity pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: BridgeSat, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Searcy, Barry A. Matsumori
  • Patent number: 11190292
    Abstract: An optical transmission device includes a first wavelength multiplexer, a second wavelength multiplexer, a wavelength converter and a third wavelength multiplexer. The first wavelength multiplexer multiplexes optical signals in a first wavelength band to generate first wavelength multiplexed light. The second wavelength multiplexer multiplexes optical signals in the first wavelength band to generate second wavelength multiplexed light in a first polarization. The wavelength converter converts a wavelength of the second wavelength multiplexed light from the first wavelength band into a second wavelength band by a cross phase modulation among the second wavelength multiplexed light, first pump light in a second polarization and second pump light in the second polarization. The second polarization is orthogonal to the first polarization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kato, Shigeki Watanabe, Takeshi Hoshida
  • Patent number: 11139872
    Abstract: A network node signals to a wireless communication device which precoders in a codebook are restricted from being used. The network node in this regard generates codebook subset restriction signaling that, for each of one or more groups of precoders, jointly restricts the precoders in the group by restricting a certain component (e.g., a certain beam precoder) that the precoders in the group have in common. This signaling may be for instance rank-agnostic signaling that jointly restricts the precoders in a group without regard to the precoders' transmission rank. Regardless, the network node sends the generated signaling to the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Mattias Frenne, Simon Järmyr, George Jöngren, Niklas Wernersson