Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and structures for passive optical add/drop multiplexing (POADM) architectures that remove the prior art requirement of an optical amplifier (i.e., repeater-less) at the POADM nodes.
Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure describe methods and systems for improved secure key generation and distribution employing environmental instability induced signal phase fluctuations that are compatible with commercial wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical systems and associated optical amplifiers for long-haul transmission.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry include optically filtering out non-Brillouin signals reflected from a fiber. Brillouin signals reflected from the fiber are coupled with a local oscillator to produce a Brillouin shift signals. The Brillouin shift signals are converted to an electrical domain using a photodetector. The electrical Brillouin shift signals are converted to a digital domain using a low-speed analog-to-digital converter that has a sampling rate below a Nyquist rate sufficient to fully resolve the electrical Brillouin shift signals.
Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and structures for passive optical add/drop multiplexing (POADM) architectures that remove the prior art requirement of an optical amplifier (i.e., repeater-less) at the POADM nodes.
Abstract:
A system and method are provided for distributed acoustic sensing in a multicore optical fiber. The system includes a transmitter for simultaneously propagating a sequence of M light pulses through the multicore optical fiber using a spatial mode selected from a set of N spatial modes provided by a spatial mode selector for the transmitter that is coupled to an input to the multicore optical fiber, with M and N being respective integers greater than one. The system further includes a receiver for receiving the sequence of M light pulses at an output of the multicore optical fiber and detecting an environmental perturbation in the multicore optical fiber based on an evaluation of a propagation of the sequence of M light pulses through the multicore optical fiber.
Abstract:
A system and method are provided for distributed acoustic sensing in a multimode optical fiber. The system includes a transmitter for simultaneously propagating a sequence of M light pulses through the multimode optical fiber using a spatial mode selected from a set of N spatial modes provided by a spatial mode selector for the transmitter that is coupled to an input to the multimode optical fiber, with M and N being respective integers greater than one. The system further includes a receiver for receiving the sequence of M light pulses at an output of the multimode optical fiber and detecting an environmental perturbation in the multimode optical fiber based on an evaluation of a propagation of the sequence of M light pulses through the multimode optical fiber.
Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to the mitigation of multi-path interference from quasi-single-mode fiber using hybrid span configuration and digital signal processing wherein a hybrid span of quasi-single mode fibers and single-mode fibers are used to configure the hybrid span. Additional aspects are directed to introducing a low-baud rate sub-banding signal to reduce the number of DD-LMS taps required when compensating the multi-path interference as the low-baud rate signal requires fewer taps to cover a given range of MPI as compared to a high-baud rate signal. Finally further aspects are directed to an ALMS equalizer which further reduces the number of equalizer taps by shifting its center tap towards the right if higher-order modes transmit slower than a fundamental mode, otherwise the center tap is shifted to the left.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a controller for generating ultra-wide band electrical signals for high data-rate single optical carrier transmission. The controller includes generating a digitally jointed baseband signal with radio frequency RF up-conversion to create optical dual side bands.
Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed for data communication by performing RF sub-band multiplexing and demultiplexing by cascading a radio-frequency (RF) mixing module and optical dual-polarized (DP) QPSK modulator forhybrid RF/optical IQ modulation; and performing intra-transceiver optical superchannel switching through the RF sub-band multiplexing.
Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving data by radio frequency (RF) mixing to down-convert in-phase and quadrature parts of a photo-detected electrical RF band signal to baseband for data conversion; controlling a mixing phase of a electrical local oscillator (LO) at one or more RF mixing modules; selecting one of the RF sub-bands to be down-converted to baseband after coherent photo-detection; and performing RF sub-band de-multiplexing for ultra-wide band optical digital coherent detection.