HIGH-SPEED BANDPASS SERIAL DATA LINK
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprising:
- a first port for receiving an input data signal comprising first data;
a bandpass waveguide interconnect having a phase response and for supporting propagation of a bandpass data signal within a predetermined frequency band along a predetermined path between a first location and a second location;
a first adaptor coupled to the bandpass waveguide interconnect for exciting an input bandpass data signal comprising the first data in the bandpass waveguide interconnect proximate the first location and propagating toward the second location; and
,a second adaptor coupled to the bandpass waveguide interconnect for extracting an output bandpass data signal from the bandpass waveguide interconnect proximate the second location.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and system for high-speed bandpass serial data communication. A driver receives at least one data signal and generates a bandpass data signal for transmission through a bandpass waveguide interconnect. The bandpass data signal is launched into the bandpass waveguide interconnect using a first adaptor and extracted therefrom after transmission using a second adaptor. A receiver connected to the second adaptor recovers the at least one data signal from the extracted bandpass data signal. A dispersion compensation circuit receives one of the at least one data signal and the bandpass data signal and information indicative of a phase response of the bandpass waveguide interconnect and dispersion compensates the one of the at least one data signal and the bandpass data signal by compensating the phase response of the bandpass waveguide interconnect.
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45 Claims
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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a first port for receiving an input data signal comprising first data; a bandpass waveguide interconnect having a phase response and for supporting propagation of a bandpass data signal within a predetermined frequency band along a predetermined path between a first location and a second location; a first adaptor coupled to the bandpass waveguide interconnect for exciting an input bandpass data signal comprising the first data in the bandpass waveguide interconnect proximate the first location and propagating toward the second location; and
,a second adaptor coupled to the bandpass waveguide interconnect for extracting an output bandpass data signal from the bandpass waveguide interconnect proximate the second location. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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5. An apparatus according to claim 5 wherein the dispersion compensator comprises one of a group-delay filter and a phase filter.
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32. A method comprising:
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receiving a data signal; processing the data signal for generating a bandpass data signal within a predetermined frequency band; launching the bandpass data signal into a bandpass waveguide interconnect at a first location, the bandpass waveguide interconnect for supporting propagation of the bandpass data signal within the predetermined frequency band from a first location to a second location; extracting the bandpass data signal from the bandpass waveguide interconnect at a second location to provide an extracted bandpass data signal; and
,processing the extracted bandpass data signal for recovering the data signal; - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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45. A method comprising:
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receiving a plurality of data signals; processing the plurality of data signals for generating a first bandpass data signal within a predetermined first frequency band and second bandpass data signal within a second predetermined frequency band; launching the first bandpass data signal into a bandpass waveguide interconnect such that the first bandpass data signal is transmitted using a first transmission mode; launching the second bandpass data signal into the same bandpass waveguide interconnect such that the second bandpass data signal is transmitted using a second other transmission mode, the first and second bandpass data signals propagating through the bandpass waveguide interconnect simultaneously; extracting the first bandpass data signal from the bandpass waveguide interconnect; extracting the second bandpass data signal from the bandpass waveguide interconnect; and
,processing the extracted first and second bandpass data signal for recovering the plurality of data signals.
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