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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2012
Applicants:
Michael R. Stead, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Weimin Zhou, Rockville, MD (US);
Inventors:
Michael R. Stead, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Weimin Zhou, Rockville, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a dispersive fiber optical loop for delaying a first and second sideband, relative to each other, of a light modulated by a radio frequency signal to create a pair of pulses, a coupler for tapping a replica of the pair of pulses from the loop; and an auto-correlation module, coupled to the coupler, for correlating the replica of the pair of pulses with each other.