Multi-antenna sequential interference cancelling receiver

    公开(公告)号:US11632764B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-18

    申请号:US16880377

    申请日:2020-05-21

    发明人: Rachel E. Learned

    IPC分类号: H04W72/08 H04B7/08 H04J11/00

    摘要: In some embodiments, a method for mitigating interference in a channel having multiple users includes: receiving a plurality of signals from a plurality of antenna elements, the received signals comprised of one or more interfering signals and a signal of interest (SOI); for each of the one or more interfering signals, beamforming the received signals to enhance the interfering signal, generating an estimate of the interfering signal, and adjusting the estimated interfering signal to undo the effects of beamforming; and subtracting each of the estimated interfering signals from each of the received signals to generate a plurality of interference-mitigated received signals.

    Apparatuses and methods for increasing magnetic flux density using superconductors

    公开(公告)号:US11626227B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-11

    申请号:US16907741

    申请日:2020-06-22

    IPC分类号: H01B12/00 H01F7/02 H01B12/02

    摘要: Using the Meissner effect in superconductors, demonstrated here is the capability to create an arbitrarily high magnetic flux density (also sometimes referred to as “flux squeezing”). This technique has immediate applications for numerous technologies. For example, it allows the generation of very large magnetic fields (e.g., exceeding 1 Tesla) for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the generation of controlled magnetic fields for advanced superconducting quantum computing devices, and/or the like. The magnetic field concentration/increased flux density approaches can be applied to both static magnetic fields (i.e., direct current (DC) magnetic fields) and time-varying magnetic fields (i.e., alternating current (AC) magnetic fields) up to microwave frequencies.

    Emergency Shutdown of A No-Insulation Magnet

    公开(公告)号:US20230097465A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17911270

    申请日:2021-03-25

    IPC分类号: H01F6/00 H01F6/02 H01F6/06

    摘要: Structures and methods enable emergency or rapid shutdown of an energized no-insulation (NI) superconducting magnet, without damage due to thermal effects of a quench. A resistive bypass wire is coupled between electrical terminals of the magnet coil, and does not pass significant current during normal magnet operation. When rapid shutdown is required, the bypass wire is cooled below its critical temperature, adding a superconducting current path in parallel with the magnet coil. A portion of the coil is then heated above its critical temperature, interrupting current flow through the coil. Hot spots near the coil leads are mitigated through the use of a conductive structure, such as copper cladding, that carries away excess heat due to the quench. This heat may be deposited in a resistive matrix, such as a steel plate, over a duration of seconds and without compromising other magnet design parameters.

    High-speed wavelength-scale spatial light modulators with two- dimensional tunable microcavity arrays

    公开(公告)号:US11614643B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-28

    申请号:US16876477

    申请日:2020-05-18

    摘要: A reflective spatial light modulator (SLM) made of an electro-optic material in a one-sided Fabry-Perot resonator can provide phase and/or amplitude modulation with fine spatial resolution at speeds over a Gigahertz. The light is confined laterally within the electro-optic material/resonator layer stack with microlenses, index perturbations, or by patterning the layer stack into a two-dimensional (2D) array of vertically oriented micropillars. Alternatively, a photonic crystal guided mode resonator can vertically and laterally confine the resonant mode. In phase-only modulation mode, each SLM pixel can produce a π phase shift under a bias voltage below 10 V, while maintaining nearly constant reflection amplitude. This high-speed SLM can be used in a wide range of new applications, from fully tunable metasurfaces to optical computing accelerators, high-speed interconnects, true 2D phased array beam steering, beam forming, or quantum computing with cold atom arrays.

    Methods and systems for signal interference cancellation

    公开(公告)号:US11611423B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-21

    申请号:US17186894

    申请日:2021-02-26

    IPC分类号: H04L5/14 H04B1/10

    摘要: A system for canceling signal interference (SI) includes a transceiver configured to concurrently transmit signals and receive signals within a single frequency band, which causes signal interference between the transmitted and received signals. The SI canceller is configured to use a set of cancellation coefficients to generate a cancellation signal to mitigate the SI. The system is configured to iteratively change the cancellation coefficients by a step factor to produce tuned cancellation coefficients. The step factor is determined by a cancellation error gradient and one or more of: a tunable coefficient step aggressiveness factor; and a time-based forgetting factor; and cause the SI canceller to cancel the SI using the tuned cancellation coefficients.