Abstract:
A network switch is disclosed with each port having the function of: electrical processing and optical modulation; electrical processing has the ability to identify packet or frame destination; burst mode transmission and receiving capability; uses its pre-assigned time slot to send to the corresponding destination, or receive from the expected source.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for detection of atmospheric conditions using optical orbital angular momentum (OAM)-based spectroscopy include applying OAM states to a light beam to generate an OAM spectrum, transmitting OAM light beams into an atmosphere, and determining degradation of the generated OAM light beams passing through atmospheric turbulence. A rotation rate of aerosols in the atmosphere is determined by analyzing different frequency shifts in OAM states of OAM light beams. A reflected OAM spectrum including a plurality of OAM light beams associated with the aerosols in the atmosphere may be received, and Doppler frequency shifts caused by reflection off the aerosols in the atmosphere may be measured. Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes of the received light beams may be detected and sorted based on the OAM states of the LG modes, and wind turbulence values are predicted by analyzing a difference in the Doppler frequency shifts for the received OAM light beams.
Abstract:
A method and system are provided. The method includes converting, using a spatial mode converter, an input signal into a plurality of spatial modes and performing polarization multiplexing and mode multiplexing, using a polarization multiplexer and a mode multiplexer, respectively, on the input signal. The method further includes injecting the input signal into a fiber optic medium. The method additionally includes applying, using at least one spatial filter in each of a forward and a backward direction within the fiber optic medium, the plurality of spatial modes within the fiber optic medium to transmit the input signal and perform distributed fault sensing on the input signal simultaneously
Abstract:
This invention proposes an alternative modulation format for channels that present improved performance when such channels co-propagate with existing intensity modulated channels. This modulation format is named Rhombic-QPSK (R-QPSK) and it is designed in such a way that it presents more tolerance to phase noise created by the nonlinear interaction with the legacy channels.
Abstract:
Active components in an optical spectroscopy based sensor are moved to a remote site and the light is guided between the remote site and the sensing site through optical fibers.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for data transport include encoding one or more streams of input data using one or more Quasi-Cyclic Low Density Parity Check (QC-LDPC) encoders; controlling irregularity of the QC-LDPC encoded data while preserving the quasi-cyclic nature of the LDPC encoded data and eliminating the error floor phenomenon. A parity-check matrix may be partially reconfigured to adapt one or more code rates; and one or more signals are generated using a mapper, wherein the output of the mapper is modulated onto a transmission medium. One or more streams of input data are received, and the streams are decoded using one or more QC-LDPC decoders.
Abstract:
A reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) unit includes a first optical circulator coupled to a first terminal; a second optical circulator coupled to a second terminal; a third optical circulator coupled to a third terminal; a fourth optical circulator coupled to a fourth terminal; a first wavelength-selective switch (WSS), coupled to the first, second, and third optical circulators; a second WSS coupled to the first, second, and fourth optical circulators, wherein the first and second WSSes are bidirectional operated; a first 1:2 coupler positioned between the first circulator and the first and second WSSes; a second 1:2 coupler positioned between the second circulator and the first and second WSSes.
Abstract:
A system/method for data transport, including encoding one or more streams of input data using one or more Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoders; employing one or more signal constellations obtained using an optimum signal constellation design (OSCD); determining an optimum mapping rule by comparing cost functions of each of a plurality of mapping rules; combining one or more LDPC-coded OSCD signal constellation data streams with coherent optical-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) coded modulation to achieve channel capacity; and mode-multiplexing and transmitting one or more independent LDPC-coded optimum signal constellation design (OSCD) data streams over a transmission medium.
Abstract:
The present invention proposes a hybrid optical/electrical network architecture for the direct-connect datacenters and HPC systems. It utilizes small scale optical switches in parallel with the electrical switching modules (e.g. the multi-port NIC) in the direct-connect electrical network (e.g 3D Torus) in order to provide optical bypassing capabilities. The optical network keeps the same topology as the electrical packet switching network, while the number of optical nodes can be equal or less than the electrical switching modules.
Abstract:
An optical phase scrambler is coupled to a laser source to randomly modulate the optical phase. Since the optical phase is continuously changing in a random fashion, at the output of an etalon interferometer formed in the optical path, the two or more components in the interference always have certain time delay between each other, resulting in a random phase different between each other. Therefore, after interference, the fringe amplitude varies randomly as well. Then at the receiver side, the fringe noise is greatly reduced after averaging over time.