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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2020
Applicant:

Com Dev Ltd., Mississauga, CA;

Inventors:

Hugh Podmore, Toronto, CA;

Alan Scott, Arnprior, CA;

Thomas Ducellier, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:

COM DEV LTD., Mississauga, CA;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2013.01); H04B 10/112 (2013.01); H04B 10/516 (2013.01); H04B 10/564 (2013.01); H04J 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/112 (2013.01); H04B 10/516 (2013.01); H04B 10/564 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments for a system and method for a range-enhanced high-speed free-space optical communication are described herein. Generally, the optical communication system may include a first modulator, a second modulator and an average-power limited optical amplifier. The first modulator may receive an input optical signal and generate a modulated optical signal. The second modulator may receive the modulated signal and may be operable to turn-off a select number of pulses in each modulated pulse frame of the modulated signal to generate a low-duty cycle modulated signal. The average-power limited optical amplifier may then generate an amplified modulated signal from the low-duty cycle signal, wherein the amplified modulated signal comprises a plurality of amplified pulse frames with each amplified pulse frame defining an amplified version of a corresponding each low-duty cycle pulse frame.


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