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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2012
Applicant:
Oliver W. Saunders, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Inventor:
Oliver W. Saunders, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2013.01); H04B 10/07 (2013.01); H04B 10/06 (2006.01); H04B 10/079 (2013.01); H04B 10/70 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/0795 (2013.01); H04B 10/07953 (2013.01); H04B 10/70 (2013.01);
Abstract
An optical communication system has a receiver that includes a plurality of photon counting sensors that each receive photons and generate pulses based on the received photons, and an electronic circuit that aggregates the number of pulses from the plurality of photon counting sensors into a merged pulse count. A demodulator samples the merged pulse count at predetermined time intervals to determine a number of photons received by the plurality of photon counting sensors during different sampling time intervals.