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Renato Dogliotti

Umberto Mazzei

Umberto Mengali

Giancarlo Pirani

For the transmission of data by way of a fiber-optical path, three-bit code words representing eight different signal levels are generated in respective signal periods 2T and are converted into pairs of ternary luminous waveforms of duration T having two possible amplitude levels L (low) and H (high). Each waveform pair includes at least one but not more than two light pulses H, of a width not exceeding T/2, occurring in either of two time positions within a cycle T. At the receiving end, the incoming light pulses are modulated--either before or after conversion into electrical signals--with a ramp signal of recurrence period T which transposes the pulses H to either of two elevated amplitude levels depending upon their time position within a cycle, with the pulses L remaining at a low level. The resulting electrical pulses are integrated over successive periods equal to T and sampled in each of these periods for comparison with predetermined thresholds.

Data-transmission system and method using fiber-optical transmission

A digital demodulator of data signals transmitted by linear amplitude modulation of a carrier, sampled under the control of clock pulses CK1, comprises an interpolating unit UIN including a tapped delay line TDL whose outputs carry, at a given instant, respective signal samples received during different clock cycles. These signal samples are fed to a transversal filter FIN also receiving two sets of interpolation coefficients a.sub.k, b.sub.k read out from respective memory sections ME1, ME2. The signal samples from the several delay-line taps are multiplied in filter FIN by the two sets of coefficients a.sub.k and b.sub.k, under the control of a pulse train CK2 and another pulse train CK3 of the same cadence but phase-shifted with reference to the former, and the two sets of resulting products are respectively summed in a digital adder SM and alternately read out to a phase corrector CJ recovering the phase coherence of the demodulated baseband signal.

Digital demodulator with interpolation for linearly amplitude-modulated

In a phase-shift-keying (PSK) signaling system with or without amplitude modulation, using two channel carriers of like frequency in relative phase quadrature to identify one of eight signal levels, each signal level is associated with one of eight equispaced radii emanating from the center of an orthogonal matrix or coordinate system. That matrix is divided by its coordinate axes into four quadrants each encompassing three zones of potential signal deviation, i.e. a middle zone centered on the bisector of the quadrant and two lateral zones whose outer boundaries coincide with those of the quadrant. The signals incoming at a receiver input over the two channels are coherently detected and filtered to supply a pair of coordinates defining a point on the matrix generally falling into one of the three zones of a quadrant; upon conversion into digital form, with six modular bits and one sign bit each, these signals by their modular bits address one of 4,096 cells of a first read-only memory to call forth one of three two-bit combinations stored in these cells. The bit combination so read out identifies the zone -- irrespective of quadrant -- defined by the detected coordinates; these bits, together with the sign bits derived from the incoming signals, address one of 12 cells in a second read-only memory which thereupon delivers a three-bit word indicating the corresponding signal level and, if desired, two collateral multibit words fed back to the receiver input for correcting distortions of the next-following signals.

Decision network for receiver of PSK digital signals

Digital signals asymmetrically modulated upon a carrier, with suppressed or vestigial second sideband, are recovered at a receiver by pseudo-coherent demodulation or periodic sampling and subsequent digitization to provide a train of raw data signals X from which a train of raw quadrature signals Y is derived by digital filtration. Signals X and Y are fed to a phase corrector where they are cross-multiplied with a sine function and a cosine function of a feedback signal W, approximating a corrective phase angle .phi.(t), to yield a corrected in-phase signal X' and a corrected quadrature signal Y'. Signal X' is quantized to provide a reference signal c which, upon subtraction from signal X', produces a bipolar difference signal whose sign bit is multiplied with either the entire signal Y' or its sign bit to provide an error signal V. The latter is averaged over a number of clock cycles, resulting in the feedback signal W whose trigonometric functions are read out from a memory for utilization in the generation of corrected signals X' and Y'.

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Renato Dogliotti