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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:
Oct. 26, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 26, 2019
Applicant:

Nec Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Yue-Kai Huang, Princeton, NJ (US);

Ezra Ip, West Windsor, NJ (US);

Giovanni Milione, Franklin Square, NY (US);

Fatih Yaman, Princeton, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/7136 (2011.01); G01H 9/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/715 (2011.01); H04B 1/7143 (2011.01); H04B 14/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/713 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/7136 (2013.01); G01H 9/004 (2013.01); H04B 1/715 (2013.01); H04B 1/7143 (2013.01); H04B 14/00 (2013.01); H04B 1/713 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and structures for high speed frequency hopping distributed acoustic sensing using an acousto-optic modulated (AOM), gated re-circulating loop and a frequency shifted receiver local oscillator. Using the re-circulating loop controlled by the AOM to generate frequency-hopping pulse(s) increases DAS acoustic bandwidth overcomes infirmities exhibited in the art that generate multiple frequency patterns that are not suitable for long-distance DAS. Additionally, by employing frequency shifted local oscillator (LO) with asymmetric in band detection, bandwidth requirements are reduced by one half.


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