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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2021
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Gary M. Graceffo, Burke, VA (US);
Andrew Kowalevicz, Arlington, VA (US);
Benjamin P. Dolgin, Alexandria, VA (US);
RAYTHEON COMPANY, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
Communications systems and methods of controlling the same include generating and processing a constant envelope phase-modulated optical signal, the systems including an optical source configured to provide a carrier waveform, an encoding module configured to encode the data as a plurality of symbol sequences, a mapping module configured to convert the plurality of symbol sequences to a plurality of phase state changes and a plurality of directions according to a path-dependent phase modulation scheme, and a phase modulator configured to modulate the carrier waveform with the plurality of phase state changes and directions to generate the constant envelope phase-modulated optical signal.