公开(公告)号：US20140362875A1

公开(公告)日：2014-12-11

申请号：US14297469

申请日：2014-06-05

申请人： THALES

发明人： Arnaud LE KERNEC ,  Mathieu DERVIN ,  Michel SOTOM

IPC分类号： H04J14/02 ,  H04B10/29 ,  H04B10/2575

CPC分类号： H04J14/02 ,  H04B10/112 ,  H04B10/118 ,  H04B10/25752 ,  H04B10/29

摘要： A method for transmitting digital data by a primary optical signal between a transmitter terminal and a receiver terminal, involves the following steps: determining a magnitude characterizing optical-wave degradation between the transmitter terminal and the receiver terminal, determining a number of transmission channels by a decreasing function of the magnitude characterizing optical-wave degradation, distributing the digital data over the transmission channels, modulating optical signals of different wavelengths using digital data distributed over the transmission channels, generating the primary optical signal by wavelength multiplexing of the optical signals, and sending a transmission configuration, including at least the number of transmission channels, from the transmitter terminal to the receiver terminal.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在发射机终端和接收机终端之间通过主光信号发送数字数据的方法包括以下步骤：确定表征发射机终端与接收机终端之间的光波劣化的幅度，确定一个传输信道的数量 降低表征光波劣化的功能，通过传输信道分配数字数据，使用分布在传输信道上的数字数据调制不同波长的光信号，通过光信号的波长复用产生主光信号，以及发送 至少包括传输信道的数量的传输配置，从发射机终端到接收机终端。

公开(公告)号：US20140320346A1

公开(公告)日：2014-10-30

申请号：US14262143

申请日：2014-04-25

申请人： THALES ,  DAS PHOTONICS S.L

发明人： Gerard CAILLE ,  Michel SOTOM ,  Miguel Angel PIQUERAS RUIPEREZ ,  Teresa MENGUAL CHULIA

IPC分类号： G02B6/28 ,  G02B6/293 ,  H01Q3/26

CPC分类号： G02B6/28 ,  G02B6/29386 ,  H01Q3/2676

摘要： A distributed feeding circuit for antenna beamforming array comprises a plurality N of inputs and a plurality N of outputs, wherein the said circuit is adapted for receiving, on at least one input, an electrical signal at a microwave frequency, modulated on at least one optical carrier, the circuit comprising at least one assembly of at least two optical dividers, two delay lines of length zero or substantially equal to a fraction of the wavelength of the signal at its microwave frequency and two means for combining two optical signals, the assembly being arranged and the delay lines being configured so that the theoretical transfer function of the circuit is an orthogonal matrix.

摘要翻译： 用于天线波束成形阵列的分布馈电电路包括多个N个输入端和多个N个输出端，其中所述电路适于在至少一个输入端接收以微波频率调制在至少一个光学器件上的电信号 所述电路包括至少两个光分配器的至少一个组件，长度为零或基本上等于其微波频率处的信号的波长的一部分的两条延迟线，以及用于组合两个光学信号的两个装置，所述组件是 并且延迟线被配置为使得电路的理论传递函数是正交矩阵。

公开(公告)号：US20130094817A1

公开(公告)日：2013-04-18

申请号：US13650795

申请日：2012-10-12

申请人： THALES

发明人： Yann OSTER ,  Michel SOTOM ,  Norbert VENET

IPC分类号： G02B6/43

CPC分类号： H03K19/177 ,  H03K19/17736 ,  H03K19/17744

摘要： A system of one or more integrated circuits is interconnected to a matrix architecture of rows and columns, a row receiving at least one input for signals, and a column providing at least one output for signals, the interconnections between two integrated circuits of a row and the interconnections between two integrated circuits of a column being electrical, and an assembly of at least one integrated circuit comprising at least one input integrated circuit and at least one output integrated circuit, an input integrated circuit being optionally an output integrated circuit, and at least one optical interconnection connecting an input of a row of the system to a respective input of the input integrated circuits of the assemblies, belonging to said row, or for connecting an output of a column of the system to a respective output of the output integrated circuits of the assemblies, belonging to the said column.

摘要翻译： 一个或多个集成电路的系统被互连到行和列的矩阵体系结构，一行接收用于信号的至少一个输入，以及一列提供用于信号的至少一个输出，一行的两个集成电路之间的互连和 柱的两个集成电路之间的互连是电的，以及包括至少一个输入集成电路和至少一个输出集成电路的至少一个集成电路的组件，可选地是输出集成电路的输入集成电路，并且至少 一个光学互连将系统的行的输入连接到属于所述行的组件的输入集成电路的相应输入，或用于将系统的列的输出连接到输出集成电路的相应输出 属于所述列的组件。

公开(公告)号：US20190273562A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-05

申请号：US16288013

申请日：2019-02-27

申请人： THALES

发明人： Benoit BENAZET ,  Michel SOTOM ,  Muriel AVELINE

IPC分类号： H04B10/548 ,  H04B10/118 ,  H04Q11/00 ,  G02F1/21

摘要： A photonic frequency converter includes an electro-optical intensity modulator having an optical input, one optical output and at least one RF input for receiving two modulation radiofrequency signals at different frequencies; a set of optical sources that are configured to generate optical signals at at least two different wavelengths, the signals being modulated by respective local-oscillator signals at least two of which have different frequencies; and an optical multiplexer arranged to multiplex the optical signals and to inject them into the optical input of the modulator. A method for converting frequency by means of such a converter is also provided.

公开(公告)号：US20140320345A1

公开(公告)日：2014-10-30

申请号：US14261965

申请日：2014-04-25

申请人： THALES

发明人： Gerard CAILLE ,  Michel SOTOM

IPC分类号： H01Q3/40

CPC分类号： H01Q3/40 ,  H01Q3/2676

摘要： A distributed feeding device for antenna beamforming comprises a first distributed feeding circuit comprising P inputs and N outputs, for producing a signal on each of its outputs with a phase shift which is substantially constant between two adjacent outputs, at least one frequency multiplexer connected to at least one input of the said first circuit, a number N of frequency demultiplexers each connected, by their input, to an output of the first circuit and a second distributed feeding means comprising a plurality of inputs, each connected to an output of one of the frequency demultiplexers, and a plurality of outputs, the second distributed feeding means comprising at least one second distributed feeding circuit comprising Q inputs and M outputs, for producing a signal on each output with a phase shift which is substantially constant between two adjacent outputs, the integers P, N, Q and M being equal or distinct.

摘要翻译： 用于天线波束成形的分布馈电装置包括：第一分配馈电电路，包括P输入端和N输出端，用于在其输出端产生信号，其相移在两相邻输出之间基本恒定;至少一个频率多路复用器 所述第一电路的至少一个输入端，数量为N的频率解复用器，其各自通过其输入连接到第一电路的输出端，第二分配馈电装置包括多个输入端，每个输入端连接到 频率解多路复用器和多个输出，所述第二分配馈送装置包括至少一个包括Q个输入和M个输出的第二分配馈电电路，用于在每个输出端产生一个在两个相邻输出之间基本恒定的相移， 整数P，N，Q和M相等或不同。

公开(公告)号：US20210194583A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-24

申请号：US17121508

申请日：2020-12-14

申请人： THALES

发明人： Anaëlle MAHO ,  Michel SOTOM ,  Alexandre DELGA ,  Mickaël FAUGERON

IPC分类号： H04B10/118

摘要： A free space optical FSO space data transmission system includes a first ground or aeronautical optical terminal, a second optical terminal housed on board a satellite, and a relay platform. The relay platform is configured so as to move at an altitude higher than that of clouds and atmospheric turbulence, so as to receive the data transmitted by the first terminal in the MWIR/LWIR domain of long wave infrared LWIR wavelengths and/or medium wave infrared MWIR wavelengths, and retransmit the received data to the second terminal in the domain of short wave infrared SWIR wavelengths, and/or receive the data transmitted by the second terminal in the domain of short wave infrared SWIR wavelengths, and retransmit the received data to the first terminal in the MWIR/LWIR domain of long wave infrared LWIR wavelengths and/or medium wave infrared MWIR wavelengths.

公开(公告)号：US20170324465A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-09

申请号：US15586862

申请日：2017-05-04

申请人： THALES

发明人： Michel SOTOM ,  Arnaud LE KERNEC ,  Agnès FRANCASTEL ,  Dominique POTUAUD ,  Gilles FERNANDEZ

IPC分类号： H04B7/185 ,  H04B10/29 ,  H04B10/40

CPC分类号： H04B7/18521 ,  H04B7/18513 ,  H04B10/118 ,  H04B10/29 ,  H04B10/40

摘要： An inter-satellite communication device for satellites orbiting within a constellation of satellites comprises at least one optical terminal dedicated to intra-orbital plane communication links and at least one optical terminal dedicated to inter-orbital plane communication links, each optical terminal dedicated to intra-orbital plane communications configured to transmit and receive optical signals with an optical terminal of an identical satellite orbiting in the same orbital plane, each optical terminal dedicated to inter-orbital plane communications configured to transmit and receive optical signals with an optical terminal of an identical satellite in an orbital plane adjacent over the entirety of its orbit in its orbital plane and each optical terminal dedicated to inter-orbital plane communications having a field of regard such that the half-angle at the vertex of the latter is larger than the maximum value of the azimuthal angle over a revolution around the Earth.

公开(公告)号：US20170134835A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-11

申请号：US15338249

申请日：2016-10-28

申请人： THALES

发明人： Muriel AVELINE ,  Benoit BENAZET ,  Michel SOTOM

IPC分类号： H04Q11/00 ,  H04B10/118

CPC分类号： H04Q11/0005 ,  H04B10/118 ,  H04B10/90 ,  H04B2210/006 ,  H04Q11/0001 ,  H04Q2011/0015 ,  H04Q2011/0016 ,  H04Q2011/0058

摘要： A photonic radiofrequency signal cross-connect and frequency conversion device comprises: electronic/optical converters, for transferring radiofrequency input signals to optical carriers; optical combiners for grouping together in one and the same optical path several optical signals generated by the electronic/optical converters; electro-optical modulators for mixing the optical signals being propagated in a same optical path with a respective radiofrequency carrier; optical splitters for splitting the optical signals at the output of the modulators; optical combiners for grouping together the optical signals deriving from different optical paths; and optical/electronic converters, associated with these optical combiners. A space-borne telecommunications payload comprising such a photonic device is also provided.