Patents Examined by Mina Shalaby
  • Patent number: 10044463
    Abstract: An optical transceiving apparatus includes an optical transmitting device performing polarization multiplexing on and transmitting as polarization multiplexed signal light, a first signal light of a predetermined polarization direction and a second signal light of a polarization direction different from the predetermined polarization direction; an optical receiving device receiving the signal light transmitted from the optical transmitting device through an optical transmission path; an acquiring unit acquiring information indicative of magnitude relation of intensity between the first signal light and the second signal light included in the signal light received by the optical receiving device; and a control unit controlling the magnitude relation of intensity between the first signal light and the second signal light included in the signal light output from the optical transmitting device, to be opposite to the magnitude relation indicated by the information acquired by the acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Noriaki Mizuguchi, Hiroaki Tomofuji
  • Patent number: 10038514
    Abstract: A datacenter for performing a service is provided. The datacenter is configured for receiving an optical signal comprising groups of wavelength bands, A1, A2, A3, . . . , AX, and B, X being an integer, the signal being associated with a request for a service to be executed by the datacenter, the datacenter being configured for executing the service and outputting the result of the service. The datacenter comprises at least one 1:N MD-WSS, having one common port and N tributary ports, where N is an integer and N>1, and a group of at least one server cluster, each comprising a respective transceiver configured to receive and transmit signals on at least some of the wavelength bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ahmad Rostami, Björn Skubic
  • Patent number: 10020636
    Abstract: A tunable laser with multiple in-line sections including sampled gratings generally includes a semiconductor laser body with a plurality of in-line laser sections configured to be driven independently to generate laser light at a wavelength within a different respective wavelength range. Sampled gratings in the respective in-line sections have the same grating period and a different sampling period to produce the different wavelengths. The wavelength of the light generated in the respective laser sections may be tuned, in response to a temperature change, to a channel wavelength within the respective wavelength range. By selectively generating light in one or more of the laser sections, one or more channel wavelengths may be selected for lasing and transmission. By using sampled gratings with the same grating period in the multiple in-line sections, the multiple section tunable laser may be fabricated more easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Zheng, Klaus Alexander Anselm, Huanlin Zhang, Dion McIntosh-Dorsey
  • Patent number: 10014936
    Abstract: In an example, the present invention includes an integrated system-on-chip device. The device is configured on a single silicon substrate member. The device has a data input/output interface provided on the substrate member. The device has an input/output block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the data input/output interface. The device has a signal processing block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the input/output block. The device has a driver module provided on the substrate member and coupled to the signal processing block. In an example, the device has a driver interface provided on the substrate member and coupled to the driver module and configured to be coupled to a silicon photonics device. In an example, a control block is configured to receive and send instruction(s) in a digital format to the communication block and is configured to receive and send signals in an analog format to communicate with the silicon photonics device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan
  • Patent number: 10009098
    Abstract: An optical imaging system and method that reconstructs RF sources in k-space by utilizing interference amongst modulated optical beams. The system and method involves recording with photodetectors the interference pattern produced by RF-modulated optical beams conveyed by optical fibers having unequal lengths. The photodetectors record the interference, and computational analysis using known tomography reconstruction methods is performed to reconstruct the RF sources in k-space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Janusz Murakowski, Chris Schuetz, Garrett Schneider, Shouyuan Shi
  • Patent number: 9979475
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for communication are provided. The apparatus obtains a message for communication using visible light communication (VLC) through a light emitting diode (LED) luminary device and formats the message using a synchronization signal followed by one or more data signals. The synchronization signal and/or the one or more data signals are modulated using a Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) modulation scheme. The apparatus further receives a dimming level value associated with a brightness of light to be emitted from the LED luminary device, generates a waveform with frequencies based on the formatted message and a duty cycle for the LED luminary device based on the dimming level value, and sends the generated waveform to the LED luminary device for communication using VLC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aleksandar Jovicic, Thomas Joseph Richardson, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 9973280
    Abstract: A digital signal processor (DSP) may include a receiver configured to receive an input signal. The DSP may include a processor component to perform carrier recovery on a set of digital signals representing a set of symbols associated with the input signal. The DSP may include an output component to provide information included in the set of digital signals representing the set of symbols. The DSP may be configured to perform, for the input signal, phase estimation with a latency of less than approximately 880 nanoseconds and having a power consumption of less than approximately 400 milliwatts at an update rate greater than approximately 4 Gigahertz. The latency being a propagation delay of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmed Awadalla, Han Sun, Kuang-Tsan Wu
  • Patent number: 9953520
    Abstract: An LED lighting device, and a smart home control system and method are provided. A smart terminal is configured to send a control instruction to an LED lighting device and to receive at least one sound pulse signal from the LED lighting device to remotely control one or more household electrical appliances that have an infrared remote control function. The LED lighting device includes a Wi-Fi module, an infrared remote control module and a sound pulse detection module. The Wi-Fi module receives the control instruction and transmits the control instruction to the infrared remote control module. The infrared remote control module converts the control instruction to an infrared control signal. The sound pulse detection module detects a prompt tone when the one or more household electrical appliances are turned on remotely, converts the prompt tone to a sound pulse signal, and sends the sound pulse signal to the smart terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SENGLED OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Wu, Chuang Chen, Hongwei Wu, Xingming Deng, JinXiang Shen
  • Patent number: 9948401
    Abstract: A circuit may include amplifier circuitry configured to receive a current signal at an amplifier input node, convert the current signal to a voltage signal, and output the voltage signal at an amplifier output node. The circuit may also include overload circuitry configured to receive a replica DC input voltage and a replica DC output voltage. The overload circuitry may be further configured to detect that the current signal exceeds a threshold level based on the replica DC input voltage and the replica DC output voltage. In addition, the overload circuitry may be configured to, in response to and based on detecting that the current signal exceeds the threshold level, direct DC current of the current signal through a DC shunt path and direct AC current of the current signal through an AC shunt path. The AC shunt path may be different from the DC shunt path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Finisar Corporation
    Inventors: Theron Lee Jones, Richard Dean Davis
  • Patent number: 9948385
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for detecting an OTDR curve tail end event to locate an optical fiber break point in an online mode, comprising following steps: 1, an OTDR emits detection light to an optical fiber operation link, and receives reflection light to form reflection sampling point data containing tail end event; 2, head end reflection point in sampling point is found out; 3, traversal is carried out to find search region end point; 4, segmented line fitting is carried out in region of [search region end point, head end reflection point] in reversed direction, start point of section of line meeting predetermined condition is used as a search region start point; 5, if absolute value of difference between largest sampling value in search region and sampling value of search region start point is larger than second preset threshold value, tail end event is judged as reflection tail end event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Accelink Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuihan Yi, Jiekui Yu, Qing Luo, Zhizhu Zhou, Lei Yu
  • Patent number: 9941975
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wavelength division multiplexing optical receiver that is provided with a polarization splitting grating coupler and a driving method for the same, where the power consumption is reduced, and at the same time, a degradation in the receiver sensitivity is suppressed. Two monitor photodetectors configured to monitor the light intensity of a first polarization component and a second polarization component separated by a polarization splitting optical coupler are provided, and a control circuit is provided in order to allow a semiconductor optical amplifier that amplifies the first polarization component and another semiconductor optical amplifier that amplifies the second polarization component in accordance with the signal intensity ratio of the two monitor photodetectors to amplify light with different light gains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: FUJITSU LIMITED, PHOTONICS ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
    Inventor: Shinsuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9935706
    Abstract: In an example, the present invention includes an integrated system-on-chip device. The device is configured on a single silicon substrate member. The device has a data input/output interface provided on the substrate member. The device has an input/output block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the data input/output interface. The device has a signal processing block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the input/output block. The device has a driver module provided on the substrate member and coupled to the signal processing block. In an example, the device has a driver interface provided on the substrate member and coupled to the driver module and configured to be coupled to a silicon photonics device. In an example, a control block is configured to receive and send instruction(s) in a digital format to the communication block and is configured to receive and send signals in an analog format to communicate with the silicon photonics device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan
  • Patent number: 9917638
    Abstract: A monitoring and troubleshooting system to determine whether or not an antenna that is used for receiving wireless weak signals, like base station for cellular wireless communication, is operational. The antenna status condition is signaled over the Fiber Optic (FO) link without interfering the signal during normal operation. When a fault is detected the status at the FO receiver is determined. Then, an indication using special signaling allows a service technician to distinguish if the status fault is antenna failure or antenna disconnect. The present invention will also allow a service technician to determine if there is a FO link failure by use of light intensity monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Optical Zonu Corporation
    Inventors: Meir Bartur, James Stephenson, Farzad Ghadooshahy
  • Patent number: 9906295
    Abstract: A method, device and system for detecting optical signal are provided. The method includes that: an optical signal receiving node receives, from an optical signal sending node, an optical channel signal and the in-band overhead information of the optical channel signal; the optical signal receiving node carries out a misconnection detection on the optical channel signal according to the in-band overhead information and generates corresponding alarm information after determining that there is a misconnection, wherein an OCh TTI and Optical channel signal normal central frequency are carried in the in-band overhead information. The disclosure addresses the problem of how to effectively detect the misconnection of optical fibers after coherent reception technologies, including flexible grid, inverse multiplexing and optical devices, are introduced into related technologies and improves the optical signal receiving accuracy and the error detection and correction capability of a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xihua Fu, Xinling Zhang
  • Patent number: 9905059
    Abstract: A data transfer system includes: a data transmission device; and a data reception device. The data transmission device includes a visible-light reception controller that receives visible-light data from the data reception device, a memory from which accumulated data is read out in a case where the visible-light reception controller receives the visible-light data, and a millimeter-wave communication controller that, in a case where the visible-light reception controller receives the visible-light data, establishes wireless connection for communication with the data reception device using a frequency in a millimeter band, and transmits the readout data to the data reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Morita, Naganori Shirakata
  • Patent number: 9899969
    Abstract: A transimpedance amplifier (TIA) structure includes an input node with a variable inductance component serving to reduce variation in peak amplitude over different gain conditions. According to certain embodiments, an inductor at the TIA input has a first node in communication with a Field Effect Transistor (FET) drain, and a second node in communication with the FET source. A control voltage applied to the FET gate effectively controls the input inductance by adding a variable impedance across the inductor. Under low gain conditions, lowering of inductance afforded by the control voltage applied to the FET reduces voltage peaking. TIAs in accordance with embodiments may be particularly suited to operate over a wide dynamic range to amplify incoming electrical signals received from a photodiode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tom Broekaert
  • Patent number: 9900099
    Abstract: Disclosed is method for scheduling a data message in a Passive Optical Network (PON) and Ethernet Over Cable (EOC) networking, which may include: an Optical Coax Unit (OCU) allocating a coaxial side Logical Link Identifier (LLID) for a Coaxial Network Unit (CNU) which accessed the OCU, and acquiring an optical network side LLID allocated for the OCU by an Optical Line Terminal (OLT); and establishing a mapping relationship between the coaxial side LLID and the optical network side LLID, and scheduling a data message of the CNU according to the mapping relationship. Also disclosed are a system for scheduling a data message in a PON and EOC networking and a related device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Meiyan Zang, Liquan Yuan
  • Patent number: 9888303
    Abstract: A method and related system for linearizing a photonic ADC sampling system of an ELINT receiver includes modulating optical pulse trains of varied pulse amplitudes based on a generated ramped-voltage calibration signal. The modulated pulse trains are demodulated into I/Q components to generate signal constellations. Equivoltage radials are defined by points of the signal constellations sharing a common calibration voltage and a common phase angle of the modulator. A lookup table is generated by mapping the signal constellations and equivoltage radials to a coordinate system to determine, for each coordinate bin, a corresponding pulse amplitude and phase angle. The generated lookup table may be used to correct nonlinear distortions in recovered output signals, preserving high-ENOB performance and increasing the dynamic range of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Kim S. Jepsen, Wenlu Chen, Raymond Zanoni, Mark A. Laliberte, Oliver S. King
  • Patent number: 9882539
    Abstract: A burst-mode TIA circuit for use in PON receivers is provided that supports multiple data rates, has high receiver sensitivity, wide dynamic range, and that performs burst-mode synchronization very quickly. The multi-rate burst-mode TIA circuit has a high-speed data path that has low input-referred noise. Based on the chosen data rate at which the multi-rate burst-mode TIA circuit will operate, the rate select switch selects an appropriate feedback resistor of the resistive feedback network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Rahul Shringarpure, Georgios Asmanis, Faouzi Chaahoub, Kartikeya Gupta
  • Patent number: 9876573
    Abstract: Example embodiments include an optical networking system (e.g., apparatus) and corresponding method. According to some embodiments, a plurality of shelves may be interconnected to form a daisy chain, each shelf including unpowered passive optical modules and the daisy chain including an active module having a passive power communication source. The passive power communication source may distribute passive power to memory devices on the one unpowered passive optical networking modules. The memory devices may provide respective communication as a function of interconnections of the daisy chain and passive power distributed by the passive power communication source. Advantages include unique identification of the memory devices without requiring active power to their corresponding modules, and continuous discovery and inventory of such memory devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Coriant Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Ronald Kangas, Yajun Wang, Robert D. Gatze, Julia Y. Larikova