摘要:
Provided is an in-store dual-mode communication system in which shelves are disposed within a commercial space. A server is coupled to the Internet and/or a wide-area network and is configured to send and receive communications. Also provided are light-based messaging units that are located on and/or attached to such shelves, each: 1) having a light source, 2) receiving a communication from the server, and 3) in response to receipt of such communication, turning the light source on and off so as to broadcast a digital message that was included within such communication, as a binary-encoded digital signal corresponding to on/off states of the light source. A user device: (i) receives, via its light sensor, and then decodes the binary-encoded digital signal from a light-based messaging unit in order to obtain the digital message that corresponds to it; and also (ii) communicates with the server via its wireless interface.
摘要:
Provided is an in-store dual-mode communication system in which shelves are disposed within a commercial space. A server is coupled to the Internet and/or a wide-area network and is configured to send and receive communications. Also provided are light-based messaging units that are located on and/or attached to such shelves, each: 1) having a light source, 2) receiving a communication from the server, and 3) in response to receipt of such communication, turning the light source on and off so as to broadcast a digital message that was included within such communication, as a binary-encoded digital signal corresponding to on/off states of the light source. A user device: (i) receives, via its light sensor, and then decodes the binary-encoded digital signal from a light-based messaging unit in order to obtain the digital message that corresponds to it; and also (ii) communicates with the server via its wireless interface.
摘要:
An optical modulator connected to a first optical fiber and a second optical fiber arranged in parallel includes an optical-path changing unit that redirects light emerging from a tip of the first optical fiber toward a tip of the second optical fiber and an optical modulation chip that modulates the light redirected by the optical-path changing unit and outputs a light beam obtained by modulating the light to a tip of the second optical fiber.
摘要:
It is difficult in a free space optical receiver to satisfy both of the stable receiving and the highly sensitive receiving; therefore, a free space optical receiver according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a light collecting means for collecting laser light having propagated through a free space transmission path; a multimode light generating means for receiving input of the laser light collected by the light collecting means, exciting multimode light, and outputting multimode propagation light including a plurality of propagation mode light beams with a number smaller than a number of multimode light beams possible to be excited; and a mode separating means for separating the multimode propagation light into the plurality of propagation mode light beams and outputting the plurality of propagation mode light beams.
摘要:
The present disclosure provides a multi-carrier optical transmitter, receiver, transceiver, and associated methods utilizing offset quadrature amplitude modulation thereby achieving significant increases in spectral efficiency, with negligible sensitivity penalties. In an exemplary embodiment, an optical transmitter includes circuitry configured to generate a plurality of optical subcarriers, a plurality of data signals for each of the plurality of subcarriers, and a plurality of modulator circuits for each of the plurality of subcarriers, wherein each of the plurality of modulator circuits includes circuitry configured to offset an in-phase component from a quadrature component of one of the plurality data signals by one-half baud period.
摘要:
Embodiments herein describe an optical receiver that demultiplexes a multi-wavelength optical signal into a plurality of optical signals with respective wavelengths. Stated differently, the various wavelengths in the received optical signal are separated into different optical signals with different wavelengths. In one embodiment, the optical receiver includes a plurality of optical filters that is aligned with a mirror to perform the demultiplexing function. The embodiments herein disclose optical receivers where the optical components performing the demultiplexing function using a ball lens aligned with optical filters.
摘要:
An optical element includes: a polarization splitter that splits light input from an input port into a first signal and a second signal according to a plane of polarization; a polarization rotator that rotates a plane of polarization of the second signal output from the polarization splitter by 90 degrees; a first optical coupler that combines the first signal output from the polarization splitter and the second signal output from the polarization rotator and splits the resultant signal into a third signal and a fourth signal with an equal amplitude; a phase controller that controls a phase of the third signal; and a second optical coupler that combines the third signal output from the phase controller and the fourth signal output from the first optical coupler and splits the resultant signal into a fifth signal and a sixth signal with an equal amplitude.
摘要:
A frequency modulation signal demodulator includes: an optical signal that has a wavelength, a frequency modulation signal being superimposed onto the optical signal; an optical filter that inputs the optical signal and has a central wavelength of a pass band at a wavelength that is shifted from a central wavelength of a spectrum of the optical signal and that is set to allow the pass band to be located at one portion of the spectrum; and an asymmetry optical interferometer that demodulates the frequency modulation signal by splitting light which has passed through the optical filter, delaying different time between split lights, and interfering the split lights.
摘要:
A laser communication system and method are disclosed. The laser communication system includes a laser receiver system to receive a frequency-shift keyed (FSK) optical signal encoded with a plurality of data signals. The laser receiver system including an FSK differential detection system that includes a plurality of differential detection filters that can each receive the FSK optical signal and generate an output. The FSK differential detection system can demodulate the FSK optical signal into a multi-bit digital code corresponding to a frequency of the FSK optical signal based on the output of each of the plurality of differential detection filters.
摘要:
A communications device includes a transmitter device having first and second optical sources and generating respective first and second modulated optical carrier signals at first and second optical carrier frequencies based upon an input signal. The communications device also includes an optical waveguide coupled to the transmitter device, and a receiver device coupled to the optical waveguide and including an FM-PM discriminator having a transfer function with a positive slope portion and a negative slope portion so that the first optical carrier frequency is positioned on the positive slope portion and the second optical carrier frequency is positioned on the negative slope portion.