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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2015
Applicant:
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
Xiang Zhou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Peter David Magill, Freehold, NJ (US);
Lynn Nelson, Matawan, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/04 (2006.01); H04J 14/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/04 (2013.01); H04J 14/021 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for distributed spatial mode processing is disclosed where a plurality of optical signals is received via a plurality of spatial modes on a first optical link, spatial mode conversion is performed on the plurality of optical signals to switch the plurality of optical signals to different ones of the plurality of spatial modes and the plurality of optical signals is transmitted via the different ones of the plurality of spatial modes on a second optical link where spatial mode filtering may occur.