Celight, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Atc Technologies, Inc.

Michael Tseytlin

Isaac Shpantzer

Aviv Salamon

Pak Shing Cho

Yaakov Achiam

Jacob B Khurgin

Arkady Kaplan

Arthur Greenblatt

Peter R Kinget

Alper Demir

Nagendra Krishnapura

Olga Ritterbush

Geoffrey Harston

Yehouda Meiman

Peter Feldman

Christopher Kerr

Jaijeet Roychowdhury

Santanu Dutta

Sam Padinjaremannil Alex

Raymond R Blasing

Gordon Michael Coutts

Nadejda Reingand

Hong Gan

Israel Smilanski

Wilhelmus Hendrikus Theunissen

Li Guoliang

Joseph Schwarzwalder

Matthew Stoneback

Charles Sciabarra

Systems and associated methods for adaptive beam aggregation in wireless communications between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground-based stations are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for transmitting wireless data between an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a customer premise equipment (CPE) station includes transmitting a first wireless data between a first antenna array and a first CPE station and transmitting a second wireless data between a second antenna array and a second CPE station. The first and second antenna arrays can include one or more individual antennas of the UAV.

Adaptive beam aggregation and split transceiver in unmanned vehicles

Communications between a terminal and a terrestrial base station are established. The terrestrial base station receives a request to monitor a satellite base station from the terminal. The terrestrial base station grants the request and receives monitoring information for the satellite base station corresponding to the request. Granting of the request may include suspending transmission from the terrestrial base station to the terminal for a period of time sufficient to allow the terminal to request the monitoring information from the satellite base station and receiving monitoring information may include receiving the requested monitoring information at the terrestrial base station via a communications path not including the terminal. Suspending transmission from the terrestrial base station to the terminal may be followed by resuming transmission to the terminal before receiving the monitoring information at the terrestrial base station. The communications path not including the terminal may include a terrestrial Access Service Network Gateway serving the terrestrial base station and a satellite Access Service Network Gateway serving the satellite base station. Handover techniques are also described.

Apparatus and methods for mobility management in hybrid terrestrial-satellite mobile communications systems

The invention provides, according to its various embodiments, a method for secure communication that involves encoding and transmitting an optical communications signal that is encoded based on a multi-dimensional encoding technique. The multi-dimensional encoding technique includes multiple security layers and varies multiple physical characteristics of a communications signal. The multi-dimensional encoding technique may include at least one or more of encoding a phase of an optical communications signal, encoding a polarization of an optical communications signal, and encoding a frequency of an optical communications signal, or any combination thereof. According to embodiments of the invention, the encoding and/or any decoding of the optical communications signal may be carried out using one or more of an optical phase shift coding, a polarization multiplexing, and a multi-wavelength control. Multi-dimensional encoding and decoding keys are provided.

System and method for multi-dimensional encoding

An optical device is provided with first and second inputs. A first coupler coupled is coupled to the first input and produces at least a first and second output. A second coupler is coupled to the second input and produces at least a first and second output. A third coupler is coupled to the first output of the first coupler and to the first output of the second coupler. A fourth coupler is coupled to the second output of the first coupler and to the second output of the second coupler. First and second crossing waveguides are provided with an angle selected to minimize crosstalk and losses between the first and second cross waveguides. The first crossing waveguide connects one of the first or second outputs from the first coupler with an input of the fourth coupler. The second crossing waveguide connects one of the first or second outputs from the second coupler with an input of the third coupler. A first phase shifter is coupled to the first and second waveguides. The first and second waveguides connect one of the outputs of the first or second coupler and one of the inputs of the third or fourth couplers. The first, second, third and fourth couplers, the two crossing waveguides and the phase shifter are each formed as part of a single planar chip made of an electro-optical material.

Coherent optical detector and coherent communication system and method

An optical device includes, a first Mach-Zehnder modulator that produces a first output, and a second Mach-Zehnder modulator which produces a second output. A splitter couples the first and second Mach-Zehnder modulators. A combiner combines the first and second outputs. A phase shifter is coupled to the first and second Mach-Zehnder modulators. The first Mach-Zehnder modulator, second Mach-Zehnder modulator, splitter, combiner and the phase shifter are each formed as part of a single chip made of electro-optical material. Such two similar optical device integrated together with polarization combiner provide a two-polarization performance.

Electro-optical integrated transmitter chip for arbitrary quadrature modulation of optical signals

A system for optical communication forms a family of orthogonal optical codes modulated by a data stream. The orthogonal codes are formed by creating a stream of evenly spaced-apart pulses using a pulse spreader circuit and modulating the pulses in amplitude and/or phase to form a family of orthogonal optical code words, each representing a symbol. A spreader calibration circuit is used to ensure accurate timing and modulation. Each code word is further modulated by a predetermined number of data bits. The data modulation scheme splits a code word into H and V components, and further processes the components prior to modulation with data, followed by recombining with a polarization beam combiner. The data-modulated code word is then sent, along with others to receiver. The received signal is detected and demodulated with the help of a symbol synchronization unit which establishes the beginning and end of the code words. A polarization mode distortion compensator at the receiver cooperates with a state of polarization compensator at the transmitter to mitigate polarization distortion in the fiber.

System and method for code division multiplexed optical communication

A system for optical communication send optical signals over a plurality of wavelength channels. Each wavelength channel comprises a number of orthogonal subchannel frequencies which are spaced apart from one another by a predetermined amount. Each of the subchannel frequencies is modulated with data from a data stream. The data modulation scheme splits a subchannel frequency code into H and V components, and further processes the components prior to modulation with data. The various data-modulated subchannels are then combined into a single channel for transmission. The received signals are detected and demodulated with the help of a symbol timing recovery module which establishes the beginning and end of each symbol. A polarization mode distortion compensation module at the receiver is used to mitigate the effects to polarization more distortion in the fiber.

System and method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexed optical communication

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