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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2013
Applicant:
Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Inventors:
Mike Allen Robinson, Fremont, CA (US);
David W. Dolfi, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/34 (2006.01); H04L 25/49 (2006.01); H04B 10/2507 (2013.01); H04B 10/60 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/2507 (2013.01); H04B 10/60 (2013.01);
Abstract
An optical communication system, a transmitter, a receiver, and methods of operating the same are provided. In particular, a transmitter is disclosed as being configured to encode optical signals in accordance with a multi-level coding scheme. The receiver is configured to provide skew correction to the optical signals received from the transmitter by dividing a received signal into separate level-specific components and sampling each of the components with distinct sampling blocks.