Including Optical Waveguide Patents (Class 398/141)
  • Patent number: 8396371
    Abstract: Multiple light beams are launched into a single optical fiber, each respective light beam with a corresponding signal. Each of the respective multi-beams are separated by launching each of the light at a different incidence angle and/or input position, into the optical fiber. In this way, each light beam is able to propagate independently according to its own trajectory inside the fiber. The resultant multi light beams propagate with respective counter cyclical orbital angular momentum with respective helical paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Florida Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Syed H. Murshid, Azhar M. Khayrattee
  • Patent number: 8396372
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a non-solitonic all-optical communication path having serially connected first and second segments. The first segment end-couples to a lumped optical transmitter. The second segment end-couples to a lumped optical receiver. Each segment has a series of spans of transmission optical fibers. The all-optical communication path has an optical phase conjugator that optically end-couples the first segment to the second segment. The optical phase conjugator is positioned away from the path's midpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Aref Chowdhury, Reneā€²-Jean Essiambre, Gregory Raybon
  • Patent number: 8380062
    Abstract: A light transmission module has a light transmitting unit having a light emitting portion for outputting an optical signal corresponding to a data signal input as an electrical signal, and a first power supply controller for controlling a drive power supply of the light emitting portion, a light transmission path for transmitting the optical signal introduced from the light transmitting unit, a light receiving unit having a light receiving portion for receiving the optical signal output from the light transmission path and outputting an electrical signal corresponding to the optical signal, and a second power supply controller for controlling a drive power supply of the light receiving portion, and at least one electrical transmission path, connecting the light transmitting unit and the light receiving unit, for transmitting a control signal for controlling power supply to the light emitting portion and the light receiving portion to the first power supply controller and the second power supply controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Uno, Yoshihisa Ishida, Akira Enami, Hayami Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20130039655
    Abstract: A method of transferring data in a projectile launching device includes providing a projectile launching device that has a transmitter and a receiver. An external device also includes its own transmitter and receiver. The receivers are in range with the transmitters. Data is sent from the transmitter on the projectile launching device to the either or both the receiver on the projectile launching device and the receiver on the external device. Data is sent from the transmitter on the projectile launching device to either or both the receiver on the projectile launching device and the receiver on the external device. As a result, the projectile launching device communicates with the external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: PLANET ECLIPSE LIMITED
    Inventors: Steven John Monks, Matthew Paul Stockdale
  • Patent number: 8374506
    Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting data at high data rates, between two systems that move relative to one another is provided. The apparatus includes an optical fiber and an axial module on one of the two systems for the purpose of axial data coupling, using the optical fiber and a lateral module on another of the two systems for the purpose of lateral data coupling using the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Markus Stark
  • Patent number: 8368995
    Abstract: An opto-electronic integrated circuit (OEIC) includes an SOI substrate, a set of composite optical transmitters, a set of composite optical receivers, and control electronics disposed in the substrate and electrically coupled to the set of composite optical transmitters and receivers. Each of the composite optical transmitters includes a gain medium including a compound semiconductor material and an optical modulator. Each of the composite optical receivers includes a waveguide disposed in the SOI substrate, an optical detector bonded to the SOI substrate, and a bonding region disposed between the SOI substrate and the optical detector. The bonding region includes a metal-assisted bond at a first portion of the bonding region and a direct semiconductor-semiconductor bond at a second portion of the bonding region. The OEIC also includes control electronics disposed in the SOI substrate and electrically coupled to the set of composite optical transmitters and the set of composite optical receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Skorpios Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Dallesasse, Stephen B. Krasulick, William Kozlovsky
  • Patent number: 8368533
    Abstract: A system for data communication connection in an architecture including an optical fiber communication line running from a communication service provider source to a proximity of at least one building, a fiber optic branch line extending from a point along the communication line generally towards the at least one building, and a receptacle, comprises a communication unit, a fiber optic cable coupled to the communication unit, and at least one connector adapted to couple the branch line to the fiber optic cable coupled to the communication unit. The connector may reside within the receptacle, and at least one of the communication unit, the cable, the branch line, the connector, and the receptacle may provide a visual indication that coupling of the branch line and the cable is effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: James Fintan Kelly
  • Patent number: 8364042
    Abstract: An optical interconnection arrangement for use in high data applications is presented that eliminates the need for extensive serialization/de-serialization (SERDES) functionality by utilizing pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) techniques to represent the data in the optical domain while utilizing a separate channel for transmitting an optical clock signal, eliminating the need for clock recovery circuitry on the receive end of the arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Inventors: Kalpendu Shastri, Bipin Dama, Mark Webster
  • Publication number: 20130022362
    Abstract: An optical communications system (300, 400, 500) comprising a first transmit unit (301, 401, 402) and a first receive unit (302, 401, 402). The first transmit unit comprises an electro-optical modulator (311) for modulating one or more radio channels bearing electrical signals with a total bandwidth B by a laser signal (310) with a laser frequency fL1, and the first transmit unit also comprises a transmit filter for outgoing signals from the electro-optical modulator. The first receive unit comprises an electro-optical demodulator (313) for demodulating the one or more electrical signals received from the first transmit unit by means of a Local Oscillator, LO (312), which produces an optical signal at a second frequency fL2, and B ranges from the lower of fL1 and fL2 to the higher of fL1 and fL2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Bengt-Erik Olsson, Jonas Martensson
  • Patent number: 8358934
    Abstract: A network comprising at least one host device having an interface card connected to a backplane of said host device, wherein said interface card comprises at least one cage for receiving a pluggable module which provides at least one embedded communication channel which exchanges performance monitoring data and configuration data between said pluggable module and a far end device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Adva AG Optical Networking
    Inventors: Henning Hinderthuer, Marcus Sauter, Lars Friedrich
  • Patent number: 8351796
    Abstract: A low-noise block downconverter includes a first down-converting circuit for down-converting and filtering a first polarization signal for outputting a first intermediate-frequency signal, a second down-converting circuit for down-converting and filtering a second polarization signal for outputting a second intermediate-frequency signal, wherein a frequency band of the first intermediate-frequency signal is the same as that of the second intermediate-frequency signal, an oscillator for generating an oscillating signal, outputted to the first down-converting circuit and the second down-converting circuit, a first optical transmitter coupled to the first down-converting circuit for converting the first intermediate-frequency signal into a first optical signal, and a second optical transmitter coupled to the second down-converting circuit for converting the second intermediate-frequency signal into a second optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Wistron NeWeb Corporation
    Inventor: Che-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 8340529
    Abstract: An HDMI interconnect arrangement is presented that performs a pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) conversion of the TMDS audio/video signals in order to simultaneously transmit all three channels over a single optical fiber. The set of three audio/video TMDS channels is applied as an input to a PAM-8 optical modulator, which functions to encode the set of three channels onto an optically-modulated output signal. The modulated optical signal is thereafter coupled into an optical fiber within an active HDMI cable and transmitted to an HDMI receiver (sink). The TMDS CLK signal is not included in this conversion into the optical domain, but remains as a separate electrical signal to be transmitted along a copper signal path within the active HDMI cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Inventors: Kalpendu Shastri, Bipin Dama, Vipulkumar Patel, Mark Webster
  • Patent number: 8335439
    Abstract: A method of managing forward error correction (FEC) initialization and auto-negotiation in ethernet passive optical networks includes receiving FEC data from an optical network unit (ONU), and the optical line terminal (OLT) responds to the ONU with FEC data. Upon receiving data not forward error corrected from an ONU, the OLT responds with data not coded for FEC. Similarly, upon receiving forward error corrected data from the OLT, the ONU responds with forward error corrected data; and upon receiving data not forward error corrected from the OLT, the ONU responds with data not forward error corrected. The communications quality from the ONU is monitored, if the communications quality is not sufficient, the OLT transmits forward error corrected data to the ONU; otherwise, the OLT transmits non-FEC data to the ONU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: PMC-Sierra Israel Ltd.
    Inventor: Lior Khermosh
  • Patent number: 8335410
    Abstract: An opto-electric hybrid module capable of shortening the distance between a light-emitting section or a light-receiving section of a semiconductor chip and a reflecting surface formed in a core to reduce optical losses between an opto-electric conversion substrate section and an optical waveguide section, and a method of manufacturing the same. A recessed portion (3a) is formed in a surface of an over cladding layer (3) of the optical waveguide section (W1). At least part of the light-emitting section (7a) or the light-receiving section of the semiconductor chip (7) for opto-electric conversion and at least part of a loop portion (8a) of a bonding wire (8) in the opto-electric conversion substrate section (E1) are positioned within the recessed portion (3a). This brings the light-emitting section (7a) or the light-receiving section of the semiconductor chip (7) and the reflecting surface (2a) formed in the core (2) closer to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Nishio, Masayuki Hodono
  • Patent number: 8335434
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for all optical distributed arbitration for computer system components (1801-1804) communicatively coupled via a photonic interconnect in a computer system device. The embodiments of the optical arbitration in the computer system provides arbitration schemes with fixed priority (2000) and non-fixed priority (1830, 2200). The non-fixed priority scheme embodiments can provide fairness in arbitration. In some embodiments, delivery of light power and arbitration are combined (1830, 2001).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Raymond G. Beausoleil, Marco Fiorentino, Norman Paul Jouppi, Nathan Lorenzo Binkert, Robert Samuel Schreiber, Qianfan Xu
  • Patent number: 8333518
    Abstract: Radio frequency identification (RFID)-equipped communication components are disclosed. The communication components can include fiber optic components, such as fiber optic connectors and fiber optic adapters as examples. An RFID-equipped circuit is provided in the communication components to communicate information. In order that the electrical circuit be provided in the communication component without altering the communication component connection type, the circuit may be disposed in at least one recessed area of the communication component housing. In this manner, the communication component maintains its connection type such that it is compatible with a complementary communication component connection type for backwards compatibility while also being RFID-equipped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Ashley Wesley Jones, Peter Timothy Travis, James Scott Sutherland
  • Patent number: 8331795
    Abstract: A method for connecting an AC powered device, which has an optical receiver, with a control circuit, which has an optical transmitter, using at least on optical medium cable includes the steps of terminating the cable at both of its ends, introducing the processed cable between the receiver and transmitter, attaching and securing one end of the processed cable to the transmitter and the other end of the processed cable to the receiver, and propagating a one way optical signal including control commands from the control circuit to the powered device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Elbex Video Ltd.
    Inventor: David Elberbaum
  • Patent number: 8331794
    Abstract: A method for connecting an AC powered device, which has an optical receiver, with a control circuit, which has an optical transmitter, using at least on optical medium cable includes the steps of terminating the cable at both of its ends, introducing the processed cable between the receiver and transmitter, attaching and securing one end of the processed cable to the transmitter and the other end of the processed cable to the receiver, and propagating a one way optical signal including control commands from the control circuit to the powered device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Elbex Video Ltd.
    Inventor: David Elberbaum
  • Publication number: 20120308240
    Abstract: An optical transmitter includes an optical modulator having first and second waveguides to modulate carrier light at each of the waveguides using a driving signal with 2*n intensity levels (n is an integer 1 or greater); and a phase shifter to cause a phase difference between a first optical signal and a second optical signal output from the first waveguide and the second waveguide, respectively. A photodetector converts a portion of a multilevel optical modulation signal acquired by combining the first optical signal and the second optical signals into an electrical signal. A monitor detects a change in an alternating current component in the detected modulation signal. A controller controls at least one of a first bias voltage and a second bias voltage being supplied to the first waveguide and the second waveguide, respectively, so as to increase the power value of the alternating current component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuichi AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20120308241
    Abstract: An enhanced 3D integration structure comprises a logic microprocessor chip bonded to a collection of vertically stacked memory slices and an optional set of outer vertical slices comprising optoelectronic devices. Such a device enables both high memory content in close proximity to the logic circuits and a high bandwidth for logic to memory communication. Additionally, the provision of optoelectronic devices in the outer slices of the vertical slice stack enables high bandwidth direct communication between logic processor chips on adjacent enhanced 3D modules mounted next to each other or on adjacent packaging substrates. A method to fabricate such structures comprises using a template assembly which enables wafer format processing of vertical slice stacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Egan G. Colgan, Sampath Purushothaman, Roy R. Yu
  • Publication number: 20120301153
    Abstract: The I phase modulator modulates a phase based on the bias voltage in which a first modulation signal and a first pilot signal are inherent and the Q phase modulator modulates a phase based on the bias voltage in which a second pilot signal different from the first pilot signal and a second modulation signal are inherent. A time-average power synchronous detection unit detects an optical power at a timing at which the positivity and negativity of the voltages of both pilot signals become the same, and an optical power when the positivity and negativity of the voltages of both pilot signals are opposite. The bias voltage control unit controls the bias voltage so that the difference between both the optical powers becomes small based on the detection result of the time-average power synchronous detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: OPNEXT JAPAN, INC.
    Inventors: Kouji TAKEGUCHI, Shigehiro TAKASHIMA, Taichi KOGURE, Hirofumi NAKAGAWA, Saki NARISAWA
  • Patent number: 8320765
    Abstract: An optical signal transfer device includes a transmitter system and a receiver system for signal transfer between a base unit and a rotary unit. The receiver system includes a natural number n of light receiving portions forming a ring-like light receiving area around the rotary axis and a light reception controller. The transmitter system includes a light emitting portion, an emission controller, and an optical guide which guides a light beam from the light emitting portion to a light emitting area facing the light receiving area. The optical guide guides a light beam to the light emitting area in one of n equally divided areas of a ring-like opposing area which opposes the light receiving area. Therefore, one of the n light receiving portions always face the light emitting area irrespective of rotary position of the receiver system around the rotary axis relative to the transmitter system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Masanori Fujimoto, Kunihiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8301030
    Abstract: A rotary transmitter having a first light-conducting hollow body, at least one transmitter for generating at least one optical signal and at least one receiver for receiving the optical signal is disclosed. The optical signal is transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver via the first light-conducting hollow body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Kragl, Ulrich Wetzel
  • Publication number: 20120251126
    Abstract: An embodiment of an apparatus includes an optical fiber for which a complete orthogonal basis of propagating modes at an optical telecommunication frequency includes ones of the propagating modes with different angular momenta. The optical fiber has a tubular optical core and an outer optical cladding in contact with and surrounding the tubular optical core. The tubular optical core has a larger refractive index than the optical cladding. The tubular optical core is configured such that those of the propagating modes whose angular momenta have the lowest magnitude for the propagating modes have substantially the same radial intensity profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Peter J. Winzer, Christopher Richard Doerr
  • Publication number: 20120237224
    Abstract: An optical data bus transceiver (110), optical data bus system (100) and method (300) employ a disambiguation signal to resolve bit ambiguities in a summation signal on an optical data bus (104). The optical data bus transceiver includes a transmitter (112) connected to the optical bus and configured, in conjunction with another transmitter (112?, 120), to produce on the optical bus the summation signal during a first interval and the disambiguation signal during a second interval. The optical data bus transceiver further includes a receiver (114) configured to receive (310) the summation signal. The summation signal includes a summation of separate data signals from each of the transceiver transmitter (112) and the other transmitter (112?, 120). The disambiguation signal includes information to resolve bit ambiguities in the summation signal. A bit ambiguity results from a summation of data bits in each of the respective data signals during a symbol period of the first interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Raul H. Etkin, Erik Ordentlich, Michael Renne Ty Tan
  • Patent number: 8270636
    Abstract: Systems and methods to minimize signal loss and distortions with connections of audio sources and speakers are disclosed. Fiber optic cables are used instead of conventional cables. The audio signals are kept always in the analog domain, no matter if they are in optical or electric format. The strength of the audio signals can be controlled by a volume control unit. A small amplifier unit can either directly plugged to speakers are connected to the speakers via a short speaker cable. A preamplifier is no more necessary in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Inventor: Chun Ming (Jimmy) Ko
  • Patent number: 8265488
    Abstract: An electromagnetic transmission and reception system comprises a transmitter section and a receiver section. The transmitter section has a first signal source, a second signal source at a lower frequency than the first signal source, and means for generating from the first and second signal sources a plurality of signals with fixed frequency spacing derived from the second signal source frequency. One or more pairs of the plurality of signals are selected, and for the or each pair, the signals of the pair are combined to derive an output signal having a frequency derived from the difference between the frequencies of the signals of the pair. The receiver section combines a received signal, which comprises a received version of the output signal, with a local oscillator signal for frequency down-conversion of the received signal. This local oscillator signal is generated by the transmitter section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: University of Kent
    Inventors: Phillip Anthony Davies, Nathan Joseph Gomes, Pengbo Shen
  • Publication number: 20120224861
    Abstract: The outage probability in an under-addressed optical MIMO system may be reduced by configuring a spatial-mode coupler at a transmitter and/or a spatial-mode separator at a receiver to dynamically change its spatial-mode configuration on a time scale that is shorter than the channel coherence time. Provided that the MIMO system employs an FEC code that has a sufficient error-correcting capacity for correcting the amount of errors corresponding to an average state of the MIMO channel established between the transmitter and receiver, this relatively fast dynamic change tends to reduce the frequency of events during which the number of errors per FEC-encoded block of data exceeds the error-correcting capacity of the FEC code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC.
    Inventors: Peter J. Winzer, Gerard J. Foschini
  • Patent number: 8260148
    Abstract: A transmitting device includes a housing, a multichannel transmitter optical subassembly, a microcontroller, and a DVI connector. The housing has only one optical port, where the only one optical port is adapted to receive only one optical fiber. The multichannel transmitter optical subassembly is mechanically associated with the housing. The microcontroller is electrically associated with the multichannel transmitter optical subassembly. The DVI connector is mechanically associated with the housing. The transmitting device is adapted to convert at least four electrical TMDS signals into optical paths that are transmittable over the only one optical fiber. A receiving device is similar to the transmitting device, however, in contrast to the transmitting device, the receiving device includes a multichannel receiver optical subassembly, and wherein the receiving device is adapted to convert multiple colored wavelengths into at least four electrical TMDS signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Stratos International, Inc.
    Inventors: James Cunneen, Danny E. Holland, Anthony S. Kowalkowski, Luis Torres
  • Publication number: 20120213528
    Abstract: An optical receiving device includes multiple input ports to which light is input; multiple amplifiers that are arrayed and provided corresponding to the input ports, respectively, each of the amplifiers amplifying and outputting light input from a corresponding input port among of the input ports; a photo diode that converts light into an electrical signal; and a lens that inputs to the photo diode light output from the amplifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Goji NAKAGAWA, Susumu Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8249462
    Abstract: A lighting system and a method of operating the lighting system are described. A plurality of lighting units (10, 10?) each comprise, a lighting element (12) with a lighting control unit (14) for controlling its light output, and a communication unit (16, 16?) for communicating over a communication medium, e.g. RF or power line communication. The units (10, 10?) further have an optical receiver (18) for receiving light from other lighting units (10, 10?). A controller unit (20) is connected to the optical receiver (18), the communication unit (16, 16?) and the lighting control unit (14). In order to allow easy, automated set-up, at least in a configuration phase, the lighting units (10, 10?) send information by operating the lighting elements (12) in a modulated manner, and this information is received by a further lighting unit (10, 10?) observing the generated light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Otto Budde, Bozena Erdmann
  • Patent number: 8249450
    Abstract: A method for port mapping a fiber optic network device is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing a first fiber optic network device and configuring the first fiber optic network device by disposing therein a first plurality of ports and a plurality of optical fibers optically coupled to a distribution cable. The method also comprises routing predetermined ones of the plurality of optical fibers to respective predetermined ones of the plurality of ports. The first plurality of ports may comprise a first drop port and a first pass-through port. At least one of the predetermined ones of the plurality of optical fibers routes to the first drop port and at least one of the predetermined ones of the plurality of optical fibers routes to the first pass-through port. The method may also comprise providing and configuring a second fiber optic network device optically coupled to the first fiber optic network device through the first pass-through port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventor: Mark E. Conner
  • Patent number: 8249455
    Abstract: In a WDM-PON system wherein a plurality of ONUs transfer signals by sharing wavelengths, one wavelength dedicated to a ranging procedure is set, and the ranging is performed with only the dedicated wavelength, so as to measure reciprocating delay times. At the other wavelengths, transmission signals from a plurality of ONUs are transferred in time division multiplexing based on the obtained reciprocating delay times. An OLT includes a burst receiver circuit for only the wavelength dedicated to the ranging, and subsequently to the ranging, the OLT adjusts transmission amplitudes and transmission phases for the ONUs, so as to equalize received amplitudes and received phases in the OLT. For this purpose, the OLT includes means for measuring the amplitudes and phases of received signals, as the burst receiver circuit, and it includes a table for managing the received amplitudes and received phases of the respective ONUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tohru Kazawa, Yusuke Yajima, Masaki Oohira
  • Publication number: 20120195600
    Abstract: An optical transport system has an optical transmitter and an optical receiver coupled to one another via an optical link having a plurality of transmission paths. The optical transmitter uses at least one of the transmission paths to transmit an optical-reference signal that enables the optical receiver to obtain (i) an optical local-oscillator signal that is phase- and frequency-locked to an optical-carrier frequency used by the transmitter for the generation of data-bearing optical signals and (ii) a clock signal that is phase- and frequency-locked to the clock signal used by the transmitter. The optical receiver then uses these signals to demodulate and decode the data-bearing optical signals in a manner that significantly reduces the complexity of digital signal processing compared to that in a comparably performing prior-art system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC.
    Inventor: Peter J. Winzer
  • Publication number: 20120195598
    Abstract: A communications system comprising at least one light source, a side-emitting fiber light rope into which light emitted from the light source is coupled, and means for sending at least one data carrying optical signal along the light rope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Malcolm Harry Dunn, Donald Walker, David James Mark Stothard
  • Publication number: 20120195599
    Abstract: A system, a Laser-on-CMOS chip, and a method are described herein in accordance with the present invention. In one embodiment, the present invention enables a conventional WDM-capable system to dictate what wavelengths a Laser-on-CMOS chip's optical ports will use by seeding each of their LoC upstream reflective light generation devices (e.g., RSOAs) with a particular wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventor: Stefan DAHLFORT
  • Patent number: 8233805
    Abstract: Simplified laser drivers for closed path digital optical cables and digital optical cables including the simplified laser drivers. The laser driver can include less transistors than conventional laser drivers for optical communication cables. The laser can include a bias source and modulation source. The bias source can have a single constant current bias point for all laser diodes. The modulation current source can have a single temperature coefficient for all laser diodes. The laser driver can exclude, for example, any one of or combination of temperature compensation of the modulation or bias current sources, external programming of the modulation or bias current sources, power control based on output of the laser diode, and/or control based on feedback received from a monitor device or other sensor within the cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Finisar Corporation
    Inventors: Jimmy A. Tatum, James K. Guenter
  • Publication number: 20120189317
    Abstract: Described herein is a hybrid III-V Silicon laser comprising a first semiconductor region including layers of semiconductor materials from group III, group IV, or group V semiconductor to form an active region; and a second semiconductor region having a silicon waveguide and bonded to the first semiconductor region via direct bonding at room temperature of a layer of the first semiconductor region to a layer of the second semiconductor region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: John Heck, Hanan Bar, Richard Jones, Hyundai Park
  • Patent number: 8218972
    Abstract: A wavelength division multiplexing system has an array of wavelength-tunable lasers with at least two wavelength-tunable lasers emitting laser light at mutually different wavelengths, a first diffraction grating, an optical fiber, a second diffraction grating, and an array of photodetectors. The laser light emitted by the different wavelength-tunable lasers wavelengths impinges upon the first diffraction grating where it is reflected so as to impinge on an input end of the optical fiber. The light then propagates in the optical fiber and comes out from an output end of the optical fiber. Then the laser light having at least two different wavelengths further impinges on a second diffraction grating, whereupon it is reflected such that laser light having a first wavelength impinges on a first photodetector, and laser light having a second wavelength impinges on a second photodetector, which is different from the first photodetector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Connector Optics Limited
    Inventors: Nikolai Ledentsov, Vitaly Shchukin
  • Patent number: 8213800
    Abstract: A wireless communication network system includes a central office network, a plurality of cell sites, each for communicating wirelessly with external cellular phones within its transmission range, and a passive optical network (PON)-based wireless backhaul system that transfers communication information between the cell sites and the central office network. The PON-based wireless backhaul system further includes at least a source optical network terminal (ONT), an optical line terminal (OLT), and a quality of service (QoS) converter in each of the source ONT and OLT to allow for quality of service-enabled communication between the cell sites and the central office network via the PON-based wireless backhaul system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Tellabs Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: David Hwa-Wei Liu, Fung-Chang Huang, James M. Hallam
  • Patent number: 8213791
    Abstract: A communication light detecting device interconnecting light transmission paths and collocated therebetween, comprises: an optical coupling body including a core portion for photo coupling with the light transmission paths, and a light extracting portion for extracting a part of the communication light as a leakage light; and a light detecting portion having a light receiving member for receiving the leakage light. The light extracting portion is preferable to possess a lower refractive index than that of the core portion. Besides, the light extracting portion is preferable to include a light detecting use groove with a groove width of 50 ?m or more and 140 ?m or less formed by cutting and separating the core portion. Besides, the light extracting portion is preferable to be the optical coupling body in which outer diameter of the core portion is different from the outer diameter of a core of the light transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Cable, Ltd., Advanced Cable Systems Corp., NTT Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kojima, Kanako Suzuki, Yoshihiro Nakatani, Toshihiko Ishikawa, Takao Nishikawa, Kojiro Ito, Tetsuya Sueoka
  • Publication number: 20120163828
    Abstract: An apparatus including a galvanic connector configured to interconnect with a corresponding galvanic connector in an empty light fitting; a network interface configured to operate as a node in a data communications network; and a communications interface for enabling communication between an environment adjacent to the light fitting and the data communications network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Phil LINDBERG, Tomas IVASKEVICIUS
  • Publication number: 20120143438
    Abstract: A vehicle communication system includes a fiber optic assembly and a cable assembly. The fiber optic assembly is configured to couple a controller to a plurality of vehicle components to enable communication of information between the controller and the vehicle components. The cable assembly extends from a vehicle power supply, with each of the vehicle components electrically coupling to a different respective location along the cable assembly to receive power from the vehicle power supply via the cable assembly. A portion of the fiber optic assembly and a portion of the cable assembly are mechanically coupled to each other such that the portion of the fiber optic assembly and the portion of the cable assembly collectively extend along the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventor: David HEIDEN
  • Publication number: 20120134681
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser drive apparatus comprises a bias current setting section (232) which sets a bias current value on the basis of the drive temperature so that the temperature characteristic of the bias current value with respect to the drive temperature may be a linear function having a slope except zero and a drive current setting section (233) for setting the drive current value on the basis of the drive temperature so that the temperature characteristic of the drive current value with respect to the drive temperature may be a function having a slope except zero. The temperature characteristic of the bias current and that of the drive current are functions different from each other. With this, low cost, space-saving, and power-saving of a semiconductor laser are achieved, and a semiconductor laser drive apparatus enabling a good transmission characteristic on the reception side and a high optical output over the whole drive temperature range when driving the semiconductor laser can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Hamana, Akira Enami, Yukari Terakawa, Keisuke Uno, Hayami Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20120134678
    Abstract: An embodiment of a system and method disaggregate I/O resources from a server's compute resources, such as CPU and memory, by moving the server's local I/O devices to a remote location apart from the server's compute resources. An embodiment uses optical technology to accomplish the fast communication speeds needed between the compute resources and the remotely located I/O resources. Specifically, an embodiment uses fiber-optic cables and electrical-to-optical conversion to facilitate communication between the compute resources and the I/O resources. The compute resources and the remotely located I/O resources can be designed differently to allow conductive liquid cooling for the compute resources and air cooling for the I/O resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventors: Arlen L. Roesner, Brandon Rubenstein, John F. Hutton, Richard Stanton Self
  • Publication number: 20120128370
    Abstract: An optical heterodyne device includes an optical meta-material exhibiting non-linear behavior. The optical meta-material mixes an input signal and a local signal to produce a heterodyne signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Wei Wu, Shih-Yuan (Sy) Wang, Alexandre M. Bratkovski
  • Publication number: 20120128371
    Abstract: A communication system including: a first communication device located in a first zone; a second communication device located in a second zone for generating an optical carrier signal; and at least one optical fibre connected to the first communication device for supplying power for operation of the first communication device and for supplying the optical carrier signal from said second zone, wherein the first communication device includes: a user interface for inputting information; and an optical modulator for modulating the optical carrier signal to include information input with said user interface and forwarding the modulated signal via the at least one optical fibre to the second communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: Commonwealth Secientific and Industrial Research Organization
    Inventors: Garry Allan Einicke, David William Hainsworth, Lance Gregory Munday
  • Patent number: 8175463
    Abstract: A method for connecting an AC powered device, which has an optical receiver, with a control circuit, which has an optical transmitter, using at least on optical medium cable includes the steps of terminating the cable at both of its ends, introducing the processed cable between the receiver and transmitter, attaching and securing one end of the processed cable to the transmitter and the other end of the processed cable to the receiver, and propagating a one way optical signal including control commands from the control circuit to the powered device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Elbex Video Ltd.
    Inventor: David Elberbaum
  • Patent number: 8172468
    Abstract: Radio frequency identification (RFID)-equipped communication components are disclosed. The communication components can include fiber optic components, such as fiber optic connectors and fiber optic adapters as examples. An RFID-equipped circuit is provided in the communication components to communicate information. In order that the electrical circuit be provided in the communication component without altering the communication component connection type, the circuit may be disposed in at least one recessed area of the communication component housing. In this manner, the communication component maintains its connection type such that it is compatible with a complementary communication component connection type for backwards compatibility while also being RFID-equipped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Ashley Wesley Jones, Peter Timothy Travis, James Scott Sutherland
  • Publication number: 20120106967
    Abstract: A method and a device provide signal processing. The method contains the steps of separating a pilot signal from an analog signal, reducing or compensating a noise based on a local oscillator laser by demodulating the pilot signal, processing the demodulated pilot signal, and combining the processed demodulated pilot signal with the analog signal. Furthermore, a method for signal processing at a transmitter, according devices and a communication system are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Harald Rohde, Ernst-Dieter Schmidt