Optical Transceiver Patents (Class 398/135)
  • Publication number: 20130177309
    Abstract: Integrated performance monitoring (PM); optical layer operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P); alarming; amplification, and the like is described in optical transceivers, such as multi-source agreement (MSA)-defined modules. An optical transceiver defined by an MSA agreement can include advanced integrated functions for carrier-grade operation which preserves the existing MSA specifications allowing the optical transceiver to operate with any compliant MSA host device with advanced features and functionality. The optical transceiver can include CFP and variants thereof (e.g., CFP2, CDFP, CXP), OIF-MSA-100GLH-EM-01.0, CCRx (Compact Coherent Receiver), Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) and variants thereof (e.g., QSFP+, QSFP2), 10X10 MSA, XFP, XPAK, XENPAK, X2, XFP-E, SFP, SFP+, 300-pin, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: Menara Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Siraj Nour El-Ahmadi, Salam El-Ahmadi, Adam R. Hotchkiss, Gabriel E. Cardona
  • Publication number: 20130177323
    Abstract: A microprocessor chip includes a plurality of processors; at least one first optical input/output unit configured to receive optical signals from an external device and transmit optical signals to the external device; and an optical system bus that is connected between the plurality of processors and the at least one first optical input/output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho-jung KIM, Young-soo PARK
  • Publication number: 20130177308
    Abstract: Methods, algorithms, architectures, circuits, and/or systems for determining the status of parameters associated with optical transceiver operation are disclosed. The method can include (a) accessing and/or monitoring parametric data for each of a plurality of parameters that are related to operation of the optical transceiver; (b) storing the parametric data in one or more memories; (c) comparing the parametric data for each of the plurality of parameters against at least one of a corresponding plurality of predetermined thresholds; and (d) generating one or more states indicating whether the parametric data for a unique one of the parameters has crossed one or more of the corresponding plurality of predetermined thresholds. The invention also relates to an optical triplexer, comprising the described optical transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventors: Todd Rope, Mark Heimbuch
  • Patent number: 8482817
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus capable of reading documents includes a reading unit including a light emitting element, a mechanism configured to move the reading unit, and a control unit configured to control the reading unit and the mechanism both to carry out reading by turning on the light emitting element and moving the reading unit and to temporarily stop moving the reading unit upon occurrence of a predetermined factor. The control unit sets a first current value which is caused to flow through the light emitting element when reading is carried out and sets a second current value which is less than the first current value and which is caused to flow through the light emitting element when the reading unit is temporarily stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Kubozono, Yasuyuki Shinada
  • Patent number: 8483565
    Abstract: A data transport card comprising an interface to receive high speed data streams from at least one client, and a pluggable conversion module which converts said data streams into optical data signals and couples these optical data signals into at least one wavelength division multiplexing channel for transport of said optical data signals via an optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: ADVA Optical Networking SE
    Inventors: Joerg-Peter Elbers, Klaus Grobe
  • Patent number: 8478127
    Abstract: A media converter for interfacing an optical fiber bus to an electrical interface of an electronic device is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Eric Y. Chan, Tuong Kien Truong, William Earl Lawrence, Clete M. Boldrin
  • Patent number: 8478128
    Abstract: A transceiver module having integrated eye diagram opening functionality for reducing jitter is described. The transceiver module may include a transmitter eye opener and a receiver eye opener integrated in a single circuit. The transceiver module may also include serial control and various other integrated components. Other functionalities that may be integrated on the transceiver module include loopback modes, bypass features, bit error rate testing, and power down modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Finisar Corporation
    Inventors: Lewis B. Aronson, Rudy Hofmeister, Christopher Madden, Mark Farley, Dan Case, Tom Lenosky
  • Patent number: 8478130
    Abstract: An optical communication device includes a transmitter module and a receiver module. The transmitter module includes a two laser sources, two optical modulators optically coupled to the two light sources, respectively, and an optical coupler, a semiconductor optical amplifier, an optical coupler, four optical band-pass filters or a demultiplexer, and an optical multiplexer optically coupled in series. The laser beams emitted from the two laser sources are converted into four laser beams having different frequencies due to a four-wave mixing effect occurring in the semiconductor optical amplifier. The receiver module includes a demultiplexer and four photoelectric conversion elements to receive the four laser beams respectively and convert them to electrical signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Chao Hsiao
  • Publication number: 20130163986
    Abstract: The present application describes methods and systems that improve the optical signal to noise ratio performance of an optical network without the need to vary the free spectral range associated with a differential interferometer. This is achieved by varying an electrical bandwidth of an electronic device associated with the receiver. For example, the electrical bandwidth may vary in inverse proportion to the combined effective optical bandwidth of the transmission line carrying the optical signal. The techniques described herein a applicable to a wide variety of modulation formats, including mPSK, DPSK, DmPSK, PDmPSK, mQAM, ODB, and other direct-detection formats. Using the techniques described herein, the optical signal to noise ratio and bit error ratio performance of the optical network is improved without the need to provide costly and complex differential interferometers whose free spectral range is variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Pavel Mamyshev, John Leonard Zyskind, Seo Yeon Park, Fenghai Liu
  • Patent number: 8469609
    Abstract: A heat transferring mechanism of an optical transceiver is disclosed. The optical transceiver includes a metal cover, a OSA that generate heat, and a heat conductor. The OSA has the heat transferring surface extending to a direction intersecting, or substantially in perpendicular, to the longitudinal direction of the optical transceiver. The heat conductor, which is formed only by cutting and bending of metal plate, includes a contact plate and the transfer plate in thermally contact to a heat transferring surface of the OSA and an inner surface of the metal cover to form an effective heat transferring path from the OSA to the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniyuki Ishii, Hiromi Kurashima
  • Publication number: 20130156442
    Abstract: A parallel optical transceiver module is provided that uses a folded flex circuit arrangement that reduces the footprint of the transceiver module while also providing the module with improved heat dissipation characteristics. In addition, the manner in which components are mounted on the flex circuit facilitates assembly of the module, reducing the overall cost of the module while improving manufacturing yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd
    Inventor: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130156441
    Abstract: An optical transceiver includes a single-fiber bidirectional optical transmission/reception device, a circuit board, a transmission-side FPC, a reception-side FPC and a separation wall. The optical transceiver includes a single-fiber bidirectional optical transmission/reception device includes an LD stem that converts an electric signal into an optical signal and transmits it, and a PD stem that receives the optical signal and converts it into an electric signal. The transmission-side FPC electrically connects the LD stem and the circuit board. The reception-side FPC electrically connects the PD stem and the circuit board. The separation wall is formed between the transmission-side FPC and the reception-side FPC, and grounded to the chassis of the optical transceiver. The reception-side FPC is folded and set between the chassis and the separation wall such that the board front surface is an inner side, where the micro-strip line is formed on the above board front surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Fujitsu Optical Components Limited
    Inventor: Fujitsu Optical Components Limited
  • Publication number: 20130156418
    Abstract: One example embodiment includes an optical subassembly (OSA). The OSA includes a flex circuit, an optical port, and an active optical component subassembly. The flex circuit is constructed of at least one electrically-conductive layer and at least one electrical insulator layer. The optical port defines a barrel cavity and is mechanically coupled to the flex circuit at a flex connection. The active optical component subassembly is positioned within the barrel cavity and electrically coupled to the flex circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: FINISAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: FINISAR CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 8466409
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion module includes a transmission side photoelectric conversion part for converting an electrical signal into an optical signal, a transmission side circuit board on which the transmission side photoelectric conversion part is mounted off-center to one side of the transmission side circuit board at one end of the transmission side circuit board, a reception side photoelectric conversion part for converting an optical signal into an electrical signal, and a reception side circuit board on which the reception side photoelectric conversion part is mounted off-center to one side of the reception side circuit board at one end of the reception side circuit board. A surface of the transmission side circuit board on which the transmission side photoelectric conversion part is mounted is opposite to a surface of the reception side circuit board on which the reception side photoelectric conversion part is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ishigami, Kenichi Tamura, Masayuki Nikaido
  • Publication number: 20130148977
    Abstract: An optical transceiver of one embodiment includes a transmitter optical subassembly to transmit an optical signal, a receiver optical subassembly to receive an optical signal, a mother board, a daughter board, and a housing. The mother board mounts electronic circuits that electrically communicate with the optical transmitter optical subassembly and the receiver optical subassembly. The daughter board mounts other electronic circuits that electrically communicate with the optical transmitter optical subassembly and the receiver optical subassembly. The daughter board has an extra area mounting a portion of the other electronic circuits. The housing defines a space for installing the optical transmitter optical subassembly, the receiver optical subassembly, the mother board, and the daughter board. The extra area is disposed outside the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Jignesh SHAH, Phillip EDWARDS
  • Patent number: 8463134
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in a visible light communication system, the apparatus including a visible light communication (VLC) transceiver for converting a visible light signal received from a counterpart into an electrical signal and outputting the electrical signal, by using a light receiving device during a reception operation, and converting an electrical signal containing information into a visible light signal and transmitting the visible light signal to the counterpart, by using a light emitting device during a transmission operation, a VLC controller comprising a visible frame engine (VFE) for generating a visible frame and outputting the visible frame to the VLC transceiver, in which the VFE generates the visible frame for transmission to a counterpart during non-transmission of respective frames for communication at a sender and a receiver in order to provide visibility to a communication link, and a host controller for controlling the VLC controller and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jeong-Seok Choi, Yun-Je Oh, Dae-Kwang Jung, Hong-Seok Shin, Kyung-Woo Lee, Dong-Jae Shin, Sung-Bum Park
  • Publication number: 20130136458
    Abstract: An optical transceiver that attenuates the EMI radiation leaked therefrom is disclosed. The optical transceiver includes a top cover and the bottom base to form a cavity into which a TOSA, a ROSA, and a circuit are set. At least one of the top cover and the bottom base provides a combed structure in a rear portion of the optical transceiver, where the combed structure has a plurality of T-shaped fins to attenuate the EMI radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8452184
    Abstract: A radial optical data interchange packaging comprises a central core; a plurality of central core photo transceivers emerging from an exterior side surface of the central core; a mother board coupled to the central core, wherein the mother board is perpendicularly oriented below and abutting the central core; a plurality of retention slots on the mother board, wherein the retention slots radially extend away from the central core; and a plurality of cards held by the retention slots, wherein each of the plurality of cards comprises a set of card photo transceivers that optically communicate with the central core photo transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Don A. Gilliland, David B. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20130129346
    Abstract: A data transport system for transporting data and auxiliary signals over an optical link comprises a transmitter, a receiver and an optical link. The transmitter and receiver are coupled to a first end of the optical link. The optical link includes a number of optical channels. A controller is coupled to the transmitter and the receiver, and controls the transmitter and the receiver to operate in a first state when data are detected at an input of the transmitter. Data are transported via the data transport system in the first state. The controller controls the transmitter and the receiver to operate in a second state when the data are detected as absent at the input of the transmitter. Data are prevented from being transported via the data transport system in the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Eric ZBINDEN, Thomas Benjamin TROXELL, Ashraf M. WAHBA, David Daniel STARK, David A. LANGSAM
  • Publication number: 20130129359
    Abstract: A data transport system for transporting data and auxiliary signals over an optical link comprises a transmitter, a receiver and an optical link. The transmitter and receiver are coupled to a first end of the optical link. The optical link includes a number of optical channels. A controller is coupled to the transmitter and the receiver, and controls the transmitter and the receiver to operate in a first state when data are detected at an input of the transmitter. Data are transported via the data transport system in the first state. The controller controls the transmitter and the receiver to operate in a second state when the data are detected as absent at the input of the transmitter. Data are prevented from being transported via the data transport system in the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Eric ZBINDEN, Thomas Benjamin TROXELL, Ashraf M. WAHBA, David Daniel STARK, David A. LANGSAM
  • Publication number: 20130101298
    Abstract: Provided herein are various schemes for transmitting out of band (OOB) signals over optical connections that may not support the transmission of such signals. One scheme may involve converting the OOB signals to different types of signals that are supported by the optical connection, while another scheme may utilize a separate parallel connection that supports the transmission of out of band signals in order to extend the optical connection. Yet another scheme modulates the reference clock of the original (in-band) signal to transmit and receive the OOB information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130101297
    Abstract: The present document relates to passive optical networks (PON). More particularly but not exclusively, it relates to the use of a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) for amplifying signals in a Gigabit PON (GPON) or WDM-PON. An apparatus configured to amplify light at different wavelengths in an optical network is described. The apparatus comprises a first active material configured to amplify light at a first wavelength and a second active material configured to amplify light at a second wavelength. Furthermore, the apparatus comprises a first reflector which separates the first and second active materials and which is configured to reflect light at the first wavelength and which is configured to be substantially transparent to light at the second wavelength. In addition, the apparatus comprises a second reflector adjacent the second active material opposite to the first reflector which is configured to reflect light at the second wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Romain Brenot, Francis Poingt
  • Publication number: 20130094850
    Abstract: There is provided an optical signal transmitting apparatus included in an optical communication system which performs communication by transmission and reception of an optical signal indicating digital data. The optical signal transmitting apparatus includes a transmission data generating unit configured to set a data length of each frame constituting the optical signal based on a frequency tolerance of a clock signal on a transmission side and a reception side, and generate digital transmission data having multiple consecutive frames of same contents, each frame having the set data length; and a light emission driving unit configured to drive a light emitting unit to output the optical signal indicating the digital transmission data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: PANASONIC CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130089337
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bidirectional optical transceiver module having an efficient optical coupling structure. The bidirectional optical transceiver module according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first structure which has a hexahedron shape, has four side surfaces of which two side surfaces are formed to be inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a bottom surface, and is transparent to both a transmitted light component and a received light component; and at least one second structure which has a planar shape, is inserted in the first structure so as to form a right angle with the bottom surface of the first structure and be tilted by a predetermined angle from a direction of the transmitted light component or the received light component, and is transparent to one of the transmitted light component and the received light component and reflective of the other one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research
  • Publication number: 20130084070
    Abstract: An optical transceiver may include an optical fiber coupling assembly for coupling optical fibers to transmitter and receiver sub-assemblies to increase the number of usable channel wavelengths by reducing an incident angle on a WDM filter without causing unwanted back reflection to a laser. In one example, the optical fiber coupling assembly may be used to increase the number of usable channel wavelengths between the L-band and the C-band. The optical transceiver may be used, for example, in an optical line terminal (OLT) and/or optical networking unit (ONU) in a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) passive optical network (PON) capable of transmitting and receiving optical signals on multiple channel wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: I-Lung Ho, Jun Zheng, Chong Wang
  • Patent number: 8412052
    Abstract: Self alignment of Optoelectronic (OE) chips, such as photodiode (PD) modules and vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) modules, to external waveguides or fiber arrays may be realized by packaging the OE chips directly in the fiber optic connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Edris M. Mohammed
  • Patent number: 8412048
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are present for managing a transmission of photons. The number of parameters for transmitting the photons as a beam in a liquid are identified using a number of characteristics of the liquid to form a number of selected parameters. The photons are transmitted in the liquid as the beam to a target using the number of selected parameters to form the transmission of the photons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Philip Stephen Dunlap
  • Patent number: 8412051
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides integrated performance monitoring (PM); optical layer operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P); and alarming in optical transceivers, such as multi-source agreement (MSA)-defined modules. The present disclosure includes an optical transceiver defined by an MSA agreement with integrated PM and alarming for carrier-grade operation. The integration preserves the existing MSA specifications allowing the optical transceiver to operate with any compliant MSA host device. Further, the host device can be configured through software to retrieve the PM and alarming from the optical transceiver. The optical transceiver can include CFP and variants thereof (e.g., future CFP2, CDFP, CXP), OIF-MSA-100GLH-EM-01.0, CCRx (Compact Coherent Receiver), Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) and variants thereof (e.g., future QSFP+, QSFP2), 10×10 MSA, XFP, XPAK, XENPAK, X2, XFP-E, SFP, SFP+, 300-pin, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Menara Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Siraj Nour El-Ahmadi, Salam El-Ahmadi, Adam R. Hotchkiss, Gabriel E. Cardona
  • Publication number: 20130077968
    Abstract: A transceiver includes a housing, an optical interface for detachably coupling to an optical transmission device, an optical-electrical conversion unit coupled to the optical interface, the optical-electrical conversion unit located in the housing, a programmable logic device communicatively coupled to the optical-electrical conversion unit, and an electrical interface communicatively coupled to the programmable logic device, wherein the electrical interface is configured for detachably coupling to an electrical transmission device. In some embodiments, the programmable logic device may be configured to perform packet filtering, packet slicing, time stamping, packet analysis, port labeling, packet masking, packet modification, packet stripping, packet de-duplication, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventor: Yunfa YANG
  • Publication number: 20130077978
    Abstract: A transceiver comprising at least one chip comprising at least a first array of long-wavelength VCSELs and at least a second array of receiving optical devices, an optical interface optically coupled to the VCSELs and the receiving optical devices and configured to optically couple with an optical connector, transmitting and receiving circuitry electrically connected the VCSELs and the receiving optical devices, and adapted for connecting to an electrical connector, and a frame for holding the chip, the optical interface, and the transmitting and receiving circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND BV
    Inventor: TYCO ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND BV
  • Publication number: 20130071125
    Abstract: An optical receiver, within a first device, may receive first configuration information from an optical transmitter, also within the first device. While receiving the first configuration information, the optical receiver may operate according to a clock. Later, the optical receiver may receive optical data from a second device according to the first configuration. While receiving the optical data from the second device, the optical receiver does not operate according to the clock, wherein the optical receiver not operating according to the clock allows the optical receiver to receive the optical data with greater sensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Tony Susanto, Zhonghong Shen, Tihsiang Hsu
  • Publication number: 20130071126
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bidirectional light transmitting and receiving device which includes a first conductive plate; a second conductive plate; at least one first lead pin which penetrates the first conductive plate and includes a first conductor and a first dielectric surrounding the first conductor; at least one second lead pin which penetrates the second conductive plate and includes a second conductor and a second dielectric surrounding the second conductor; a light receiving unit which is connected with the at least one first lead pin; and a light transmitting unit which is connected with the at least one second lead pin, wherein the first conductive plate is electrically isolated from the second conductive plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jong Jin LEE, Kwon-Seob Lim
  • Patent number: 8401395
    Abstract: A system comprises a transmitter including a laser configured to generate a laser beam directed at a spot on a surface, and a laser driver connected to the laser and configured to modulate input data onto the laser beam. The system may further comprise a receiver including an optical detector configured to decode received light into raw data, a signal processor configured to decode the raw data into the original input data, and telescope optics configured to receive light reflected from the spot on the surface, collimate the light and converge the light onto the optical detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Tiejun Xia, Glenn A. Wellbrock
  • Patent number: 8401394
    Abstract: In a method for transmission of digital data in an optical free-space transmission system in which a binary code sequence produced from the digital data is used to transmit amplitude-modulated light waves across an optical free space between a transmitter and a receiver, according to a first aspect, the binary code sequence is produced such that a modulation frequency of the light waves determined by the binary code sequence has a value of 70 Hertz. According to a second aspect, ‘t’ light waves are modulated with the binary code sequence and binary data are transmitted in blocks during a first time period, and non-modulated light waves are emitted during second time periods, wherein the light intensities of the time periods are selected so that the quantities of light transmitted in two periods correspond to predetermined quantities of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Joachim Walewski
  • Publication number: 20130064548
    Abstract: Provided are devices, systems, and methods for wirelessly streaming digital data to an optical disc. Embodiments of the device are designed to enable real time, wireless streaming of data via wireless communication. A user can wirelessly stream data from an electronic device capable of wireless communication, to an optical disc containing a memory, a power supply, a processor, a transceiver, a charging device, and an optical modulator. An optical disc reader can then read the electronic data on the optical disc to process the electronic data in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: BLUEYECD, LLC
    Inventors: Franklin Thomas Fomby, JR., Don Swanner Wrenn, Crista Catherine Wrenn
  • Patent number: 8396362
    Abstract: The light transmitting and receiving module includes a light outputting section; alight receiver which receives input light and which outputs an electric signal having an intensity corresponding to a light intensity of the input light; a first variably attenuation controller which variably attenuates the light output from the light outputting section; a second variably attenuation controller which variably attenuates the input light to the light receiver; a first switch which selectively switches a path through which the light from the first variably attenuation controller is output between a light transmitting path and an alternative path different from the light transmitting path; and a second switch which selectively switches light to be output to the second variably attenuation controller between light from an external entity and the light through the alternative path of the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yuichi Nagaki, Tsutomu Aiba
  • Patent number: 8396370
    Abstract: A parallel optical transceiver module is provided that uses a folded flex circuit arrangement that reduces the footprint of the transceiver module while also providing the module with improved heat dissipation characteristics. In addition, the manner in which components are mounted on the flex circuit facilitates assembly of the module, reducing the overall cost of the module while improving manufacturing yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Avago Technologies Fiber IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd
    Inventor: Jing Hui Mu
  • Publication number: 20130051808
    Abstract: A method and system for bandwidth enhancement using hybrid inductors are disclosed and may include a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transceiver providing an electrical impedance that increases with frequency via hybrid inductors comprising a transistor, a capacitor, an inductor, and a resistor. A first terminal of the hybrid inductors may comprise a first terminal of the transistor. A second terminal of the transistor may be coupled to a first terminal of the resistor and a first terminal of the capacitor. A second terminal of the resistor may comprise a second terminal of the hybrid inductors. A third terminal of the transistor may be coupled to a first terminal of an inductor, and a second terminal of the inductor may be coupled to a second terminal of the capacitor. The hybrid inductors may be configured by varying transconductance, resistance, and/or capacitance and may be utilized as an amplifier load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventor: Daniel Kucharski
  • Patent number: 8385748
    Abstract: To reduce emission of an unintentional electromagnetic wave even if a frequency of a clock signal being output is high, a printed circuit board (10) includes: a substrate (101); signal output circuits (102 and 103) formed on the substrate (101), for outputting a clock signal; power supply wirings (109 and 110) for connecting the signal output circuits (102 and 103) and a power source; and trap filters (107 and 108) provided to the power supply wirings (109 and 110), for attenuating a frequency component corresponding to a frequency of the clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Oclaro Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Kagaya, Koyu Takahashi, Taichi Kogure
  • Patent number: 8385745
    Abstract: This invention discloses a method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving signals in a microwave system, and pertains to the field of communications. The transmitting method comprises receiving and modulating a transmission signal transmitted via an optical fiber; processing the modulated transmission signal to generate RF signal; and separating the RF signal to be transmitted from a signal received via an antenna, and transmitting the separated RF signal via the antenna. The receiving method comprises separating a signal received via an antenna from a signal to be transmitted; processing the received signal after being separated to generate IF signal; demodulating the generated IF signal; and transmitting the received signal after being demodulated via an optical fiber. The transmitting/receiving apparatus comprises an optical fiber signal interface, a signal reception module, a modulation module, an IF-RF transmission module, a duplexer, a control module and a power interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guixue Zhao
  • Patent number: 8380073
    Abstract: An optical transceiver implemented with a tunable LD is disclosed. The tunable LD is installed within a TOSA (Transmitter Optical Subassembly). The optical transceiver provides two circuit boards arranged in the up-and-down relation. The TOSA is primarily connected to the second board but signals to drive the tunable LD are carried on an FPC board directly connected to the first board that mounts a driver circuit for the tunable LD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Phillip Edwards, Jignesh Shah
  • Patent number: 8380080
    Abstract: An optical transceiver of the present invention comprising an OSA, a circuit board, and a flexible substrate connecting these, in which the flexible substrate has high-speed signal lines and other lines other than the high speed signal lines provided separated from each other on the same surface, a ground layer placed apart and opposite these, and a resistive layer placed apart and opposite the high-speed signal lines, the other lines and the ground layer. High-speed signal and the resistive layer are opposite at least a part of the other lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kawaguchi, Kazutoki Tahara, Tsutomu Saga
  • Patent number: 8380075
    Abstract: There are provided a downsized and low-cost optical module used as a terminal for wavelength multiplexing optical transmission and one-core bidirectional optical transmission which transmits lights of plural wavelengths through one optical fiber, and a method of manufacturing the optical module. A base on which plural optical elements are mounted, and an optical multiplexer and demultiplexer having wavelength selection filters and mirrors formed on both surfaces of a substrate are prepared. Those two parts are packed into a package so that an optical element mounted surface and a filter surface are substantially parallel to each other, and the optical elements are arranged to emit or receive lights obliquely to the base. With this configuration, because the optical multiplexer and demultiplexer can be mounted in parallel to an X-Y plane, a package can be easily machined by using a lathe, thereby enabling a reduction in the costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Sakigawa, Toshiaki Takai, Shohei Hata
  • Patent number: 8380074
    Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system includes a first optical transceiver having a first set of transmitters and a first set of receivers and a second optical transceiver having a second set of transmitters coupled anti-symmetrically to the first set of receivers of the first optical transceiver and a second set of receivers coupled anti-symmetrically to the first set of transmitters of the first optical transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Marc Epitaux, Jean-Marc Verdiell, Peter Kirkpatrick, Jan P. Peeters Weem
  • Publication number: 20130039648
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an analog/digital conversion unit, a pulse width modulation unit outputting a transmission signal, the transmission signal being a pulse pattern corresponding to a digital signal output from the analog/digital conversion unit, a reference signal generation unit generating a reference signal, the reference signal being a fixed pulse pattern. The device includes a first control unit selecting one of the transmission signal and the reference signal, a light emitting element drive unit outputting a drive current based on the transmission signal or the reference signal, a light emitting element driven by the light emitting element drive unit. The device includes an optical receiving unit converting the optical signal into a voltage signal, and a demodulation unit demodulating the voltage signal into a digital signal based on the transmission signal or the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: TOYOAKI UO
  • Publication number: 20130039654
    Abstract: A scheme is described for remote control of the output power of a transmitter in a smart SFP (or SFP+, or XFP) duplex (or BiDi, or SWBiDi) transceiver in a communication system using an operating system with OAM and PP functions, an OAM, PP & Payload Processor, a transceiver, an optical power meter (optional), a BERT, and an optical link in the field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Kwang Soo Park, Moon Soo Park, Christian Hoede, Jan A.W. Venema
  • Patent number: 8374511
    Abstract: A transceiver card for a telecommunications box for transmitting data over a first optical fiber and receiving data over a second optical fiber. The card has transmitter for transmitting data over the first optical fiber, the transmitter having a laser and a modulator, a fiber output optically connected to the laser for connecting the first optical fiber to the card, a fiber input for connecting the second optical fiber to the card, a receiver optically connected to the fiber input for receiving data from the second optical fiber, and an OTDR optically connected between the transmitter and the fiber output or between the receiver and the fiber input. An energy level detector is also provided between the receiver and the fiber input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: TQ Gamma, LLC
    Inventor: Peter Snawerdt
  • Patent number: 8374509
    Abstract: The invention relates to products, methods and devices for remote communication or control using chromogenic materials. Several samples including at least one kind of chromogenic materials are simultaneously irradiated or radiated together by an appropriate entangled radiation, e.g, gamma, X, ultraviolet or visible radiation, provided by a cascade from an atomic source, or by the target of a linear particle accelerator or by a non-linear crystal. When the samples are separated, one of them, qualified as the master, is stimulated by a traditional method that uses infrared or white radiation or by heating, and a signal is measured that represents the partially correlated excess variation of opacity or coloration of the other sample(s), qualified as slave(s). There is no known method of interference between the master and the slaves. The slave(s) are the only ones capable of instantaneously receiving the signal from the master through all media and from any distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Saquant
    Inventor: Robert Desbrandes
  • Patent number: 8369714
    Abstract: A burst optical signal receiving device is provided, which includes an optical receiving component and a limiting amplifying circuit unit. The optical receiving component further includes a photodetector, a trans-impedance amplifier, a first direct current (DC) cancellation forbidding circuit, and a DC bias circuit, and the limiting amplifying circuit unit further includes a group of alternating current (AC) coupling capacitors, a limiting amplifier, and a second DC cancellation forbidding circuit. Through the technical solution, an input burst optical signal within a certain dynamic range can be recovered into a valid burst electric signal in shorter time. The technical solution can be applied in a burst optical signal receiver in a 10-Gigabit Ethernet passive optical network (10GEPON).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Superxon (Chengdu) Technology Ltd.
    Inventor: Ke Dong
  • Patent number: 8369709
    Abstract: An optical transceiver includes a substrate, a plurality of laser components, a bracket and a plurality of lenses. The substrate defines a plurality of through holes, a plurality of receiving grooves and at least two fixing holes. The laser components are received in the plurality of receiving grooves and installed on the substrate. The bracket includes a top cover with an upper surface and one or more side walls. The one or more sidewalls include at least two positioning posts and one or more fixing surfaces. The positioning posts are engaged with the fixing holes to position the bracket to the substrate. The fixing surfaces are affixed on the substrate by an adhesive. The one or more sidewalls define one or more through channels extending from the one or more fixing surface to the upper surface. The lenses are installed on the bracket and correspond to the laser components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignees: Ambit Microsystems (Zhongshan) Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiao-Ya Guo