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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
May. 23, 2017
Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Ahmed Bahaa Mansour, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for using the system includes a first and second waveguide and optical receiver elements coupled therebetween. The optical receiver elements include a microring configured to admit light from and transfer light to at least one of the first and second waveguides, a photodetector, coupled to the microring, configured to detect light admitted to the microring, and an enable circuit, coupled to the microring, configured to be switched between a light admitting state to enable light to be admitted to the microring and a light rejection state to prevent light from being admitted to the microring. Each optical receiver element has a relative priority and are configured to asynchronously arbitrate among themselves for a token to place one of the enable circuits in the light admitting state to enable one of the optical receiver elements to receive and transmit data.