Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed for data communication by forming a hybrid that includes an electrical switching network with packet granularity of switching and store-and-forward forwarding services to network traffic and an optical switching network providing circuit granularity of switching and optical bypassing services to network traffic; applying local control of optical switching modules in the optical switching network with a network controller coupled to the electrical switching network, the optical switching network, and a loss-of-light detection module; and detecting loss-of-light in a failure point in the optical switching network and rerouting traffic to avoid the optical failure point.
Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed for sensing acceleration or vibration of a physical object, by placing a two-mode elliptical-core optical fiber on the object; receiving optical signals using photo-detector; and determining acceleration as perturbation effects on the differential phase shift between two spatial modes in each polarization or between two polarization modes in each spatial mode for the two-mode elliptical-core optical fiber.
Abstract:
A method and system for remote sensing using optical orbital angular momentum (OAM)-based spectroscopy for lateral motion detection. The method includes applying an OAM mode on a light beam to generate an OAM light beam, the OAM light beam having an optical OAM spectrum, applying an OAM optical beam tilt on the OAM light beam to generate a tilted OAM light beam, transmitting the tilted OAM light beam on a remote object, such that the remote object interacts with the tilted OAM light beam, receiving a reflected OAM spectrum associated with the remote object, the reflected OAM spectrum having power values of OAM modes on opposite sides of an OAM launch mode, and displaying lateral motion of the remote object based on the reflected OAM spectrum by comparing the power values.
Abstract:
There are provided an optical transponder having a first end and a second end, as well as an electric switch having the transponder. The transponder includes an optical interface, at the first end, having a variable rate optical transmitter and a variable rate optical receiver to respectively transmit and receive signals using at least one of different bandwidths and different bit rates. The transponder further includes an electrical interface, at the second end, having an electrical interface throughput matching an optical capacity of the optical interface. The transponder also includes a processor for controlling the optical capacity.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for sensing conditions of a fiber include splitting a light signal into two branches. A first branch is converted to have a mode different from that of the second branch. Both branches are mode multiplexed into a single fiber. An output of the fiber is mode demultiplexed into the two branches. The first branch is mode converted to its original mode. Brillouin scattering patterns of the two branches are compared to determine a temperature and strain profile of the fiber.
Abstract:
A system and method for network virtualization and resource allocation, including storing one or more received network requests in a request table, and updating at least one of a flow table, a waiting list table, or a candidate group map based on the one or more received network requests. The updating includes monitoring a transmission progress of each of one or more flows in a network of interconnected computing devices and moving completed flows from the flow table to a success list, moving requests in the waiting list table which have reached an attempt threshold from the flow table to a fail list, and compiling any residual requests in the waiting list with new requests to generate a new request table. A deterministic request allocation and/or an optimizing request allocation is performed based on the new request table.
Abstract:
A spectroscopy system and method includes illuminating a target with a wideband light pulse that includes an entire testing wavelength spectrum. The light pulse is transformed with a dispersive medium to introduce a frequency-based time delay to the light pulse after the light pulse has interacted with a target. The dispersed light pulse is converted to a time-domain electrical signal with a photodiode. The time-domain electrical signal is converted into a spectral profile of the target.
Abstract:
A method for reducing optical components at a receiver which include converting an input signal at a receiver to include an interleaving of alternate signal diversity components, the signal diversity components including phase diversity when the converting includes 0 and 90 degree interleaving and the signal diversity components include polarization diversity interleaving when the converting includes interleaved orthogonal polarizations, and combining the signal diversity components for enabling a single photo detection at the receiver to detect the alternative signal diversity components for subsequent analog-to-digital conversion.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for data transport, comprising encoding one or more streams of input data using nonbinary low density parity check (NB-LDPC) encoders, corresponding to orthogonal polarization states. Receiving one or more streams of input data using a buffer coupled to the encoders, the data written to the buffer bR bits at a time, where R is the code rate. Generating one or more signals using a 2b-ary mapper implemented as a look-up table (LUT) to store coordinates of a corresponding signal constellation, the 2b-ary mapper configured to assign bits of one or more signals to a signal constellation and to associate the bits of the signals with signal constellation points, wherein the constellation is expanded to avoid bandwidth expansion due to coding, generating substantial net coding gains within a same bandwidth. Modulating nonbinary LDPC-coded data streams using in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) modulators and multiplexing the data streams using polarization beam combiner.
Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed for enhancing optical communication by performing dispersion compensation in an optical fiber using a fiber Bragg grating (FBG); and providing increased degrees of freedoms (DOFs) to distinguish forward and backward propagating fields with a passive component.