Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Cable Television Labs, Inc.

Cable Television Laborties, Inc.

Luis Alberto Campos

Zhensheng Jia

Mu Xu

Haipeng Zhang

Jing Wang

Curtis Dean Knittle

Junwen Zhang

Thomas Holtzman Williams

Jennifer Andreoli-Fang

Belal Hamzeh

Lin Cheng

Alireza Babaei

Bernardo A Huberman

Joey Padden

Matthew D Schmitt

Daniel Rice

David Daniel Smith

Ian MacMillan

Chuang Zhou

Carmela Stuart

Joseph Padden

Bernard Richard McKibben

Mario Di Dio

Justin Colwell

Judson D Cary

Gregory Charles White

Karthik Sundaresan

Jason W Rupe

Balkan Kecicioglu

Thomas E Sandholm

Ruoyu Sun

Luther E Smith

Steve Glennon

Douglas D Jones

Chris Stengrim

Curtis Dean Knittie

Robert J Briscoe

Daryl William Malas

Eric Winkelman

Sayandev Mukherjee

Stephen G Glennon

George J Kakatsakis

Jim Campanell

Martha Lurie Lyons

Christopher J Corcimiglia

Philip Rosenberg-Watt

Ian Macmillan

A coherent optical injection locking (COIL) apparatus generates multiple optical source outputs from a single optical source generated by a parent laser. The COIL apparatus includes a plurality of optical source generators each having a child laser, of lesser performance than the parent laser, that is injection locked to the single optical source. The optical source generators may have one or both of a shared configuration and a cascaded configuration that replicates the single optical source, or a single wavelength of the single optical source when it is a comb source.

Methods of injection locking for multiple optical source generation

An injection locked transmitter for an optical communication network includes a master seed laser source input substantially confined to a single longitudinal mode, an input data stream, and a laser injected modulator including at least one slave laser having a resonator frequency that is injection locked to a frequency of the single longitudinal mode of the master seed laser source. The laser injected modulator is configured to receive the master seed laser source input and the input data stream, and output a laser modulated data stream.

Communication systems and methods

A redundancy link includes a first optical splitter and a second optical splitter. The first optical splitter includes (i) a first hub-side port that optically couples to a first optical line terminal, a first hub-side failover-mode port, (iii) a first plurality of node-side splitter-ports each optically coupled to the first hub-side port and the first hub-side failover-mode port, (iii) a first failover-mode port coupled to the first hub-side port. The second optical splitter includes (i) a second hub-side port that optically couples to a second optical line terminal, a second hub-side failover-mode port optically coupled to the first failover-mode port, (iii) a second plurality of node-side splitter-ports each optically coupled to the second hub-side port and the second hub-side failover-mode port, (iii) a second failover-mode port coupled to the second hub-side port.

Redundancy links, resiliency architectures, and protection methods for passive optical networks

A method for synchronizing a data frame and data symbols in a communication system includes generating a training sequence including a serial sequence of data symbols that are conjugate symmetric, inserting the training sequence in a transmitter-side data frame, converting constituent data symbols of the transmitter-side data frame to communication signals, transmitting the communication signals from a transmitter to a receiver, converting the communication signals to a stream of received data symbols, detecting presence of the training sequence in the stream of received data symbols, and identifying a position of a received data frame from the presence of the training sequence.

Systems and methods for data frame and data symbol synchronization in a communication network

A radio system includes a feed network, an edge wavelength switching system (EWSS), a photodetector, and a broadband lens-based antenna subsystem. The feed network aggregates a plurality of unmodulated optical carriers and modulated optical carriers for delivery to an optical link. The EWSS receives the plurality of unmodulated optical carriers and modulated optical carriers from the optical link, and selects a first unmodulated carrier and a first modulated carrier as a first selected optical carrier pair. The photodetector receives the first selected carrier pair from the EWSS, and generates a first electrical signal from an optical beat of the first unmodulated carrier with the first modulated carrier. The broadband lens-based antenna subsystem receives the first electrical signal from the photodetector, propagates the received first electrical signal through a lens body, and outputs a first directional wireless beam signal containing signal data from the first modulated carrier.

Optically integrated antenna systems and methods

An optical emission array includes an optical input portion configured to provide a parent laser source for the optical emission array, and an optical output portion including a plurality of child laser emitters. Each child laser emitter of the plurality of child laser emitters is injection-locked to the parent laser source. The optical emission array further includes at least two optical distribution branches (i) disposed between the optical input portion and the optical output portion, and (ii) optically connecting at least two child laser emitters of the plurality of child laser emitters, respectively, to the parent laser source.

Systems and methods for free space optical injection locking

An optical full-field transmitter (OFFT) includes a plurality of optical circulators and a polarization beam combiner. The plurality of optical circulators are fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, where each of the optical circulators has (a) a first port that optically couples to a high-quality optical source, (b) a second port that optically couples to a child laser configured to receive amplitude modulation data, and (c) a third port optically coupled to a phase modulator that (i) is configured to receive a phase modulation data and (ii) includes an output port that outputs amplitude and phase modulated light. The polarization beam combiner receives the amplitude and phase modulated light from each of the optical circulators and outputs combined amplitude and phase modulated light.

Optical full-field transmitter

A method for tuning a power characteristic of an optical frequency comb includes controlling a modulating light source according to a plurality of modulation parameters to generate an optical frequency comb including a plurality of optical tones. Additionally, at least one of the plurality of modulation parameters is changed until a total power of the plurality of optical tones is greater than or equal to a minimum threshold value. Furthermore, at least one of the plurality of modulation parameters are changed until respective powers of each of the plurality of optical tones are within a predetermined proximity to respective target powers of each of the plurality of optical tones.

Systems and methods for tuning a power characteristic of an optical frequency comb

A beam steering subsystem is provided in an optical communication system. The beam steering subsystem is configured for steering a free-space optical (FSO) beam from a first transceiver to a second transceiver disposed remotely from the first receiver. The beam steering subsystem includes a beam steering device disposed between the first transceiver and the second transceiver, and an optical tracking unit in optical communication and electrical communication with the beam steering device. The wherein the beam steering device is further configured to (i) receive the FSO beam from the first transceiver, (ii) receive an optical tracking signal from the second transceiver, (iii) optically relay the received optical tracking signal to the optical tracking unit, and (iv) steer the FSO beam to the second transceiver based on an electrical feedback control signal from optical tracking unit.

Systems and methods for optical wireless communication

A fiber-optic network that uses as a hybrid telecommunication and sensing system when telecommunication signals and probe signals are transmitted across a shared fiber strand in either a co-propagated or counter-propagated direction is disclosed. Probe signals generated by a sensing termination system and/or by one or more end devices are used to analyze conditions affecting network hardware and/or events occurring within the fiber distribution area.

Hybrid telecommunication and sensing systems and methods

A passive optical tap includes a first wavelength division multiplexer (WDM), a second WDM, a first optical splitter, and a second optical splitter. The first wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) has a first plurality of single-channel ports. The second WDM has a second plurality of single-channel ports. The first optical splitter has a first combined-power port optically coupled to a first one of the first plurality of single-channel ports and a first split-power port optically coupled to a first one of the second plurality of single-channel ports. The second optical splitter has a second combined-power port optically coupled to a second one of the second plurality of single-channel ports and a second split-power port optically coupled to a second one of the first plurality of single-channel ports.

Passive optical tap and associated methods

Adaptive modulation coding schemes improve spectral efficiency of telecommunication networks by implementing MCSs specific to each of a plurality of end devices in operable communication with a hub. For example, the MCSs may be specific to a channel, a wavelength, a distance, or capabilities of an end device. The MCSs are selected to include the highest modulation format and highest forward error correction coding rate that can be applied to a telecommunication signal without surpassing a signal parameter threshold.

Adaptive modulation and coding schemes for enhanced spectral efficiency

A communication network includes a coherent optics transmitter, a coherent optics receiver, an optical transport medium operably coupling the coherent optics transmitter to the coherent optics receiver, and a coherent optics interface. The coherent optics interface includes a lineside interface portion, a clientside interface portion, and a control interface portion.

Systems and methods for coherent optics in an access network

A radio frequency (RF) beam transmission component having optical inputs and electrical outputs may include a wavelength selective switch (WSS) that has a plurality of optical WSS outputs. Each optical WSS output may be configured to transmit one or more wavelengths of the incoming optical signals. The RF beam transmission component may include a plurality of photodetectors (PD), each photodetector having an optical PD input coupled to one or more of said plurality of optical WSS outputs and a corresponding electrical output of a plurality of PD electrical outputs. The RF beam transmission component may further include a lens that has a plurality of electrical inputs and each electrical input may be electrically coupled to at least one of the plurality of electrical PD outputs. The lens may further have a plurality of electrical lens output ports.

Ultra-wideband wireless photonic integrated antenna system

A coherent passive optical network extender apparatus includes an extender transceiver for communication with an associated optical headend. The extender transceiver includes at least one receiving portion, at least one transmitting portion, and an extension processor. The apparatus further includes a signal adaptation unit configured to convert a downstream electrical transmission lane into a plurality of individual wavelengths. Each of the converted individual wavelengths are for transmission to one of an optical node and an end user. The apparatus further includes a plurality of transceivers, disposed within the signal adaptation unit, and configured to process and transmit the converted individual wavelengths as a bundle for retransmission to the respective end users.

System and methods for coherent optical extension

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Luis Alberto Campos