Method and apparatus for phase shift keyed optical communications
First Claim
1. An optical communications system, comprising:
- an optical transmitter/receiver pair configured, or operable to be configured, to communicate via a dedicated communications path extending an entire distance between a transmitter and a receiver of the optical transmitter/receiver pair in a given direction along the dedicated communications path, the transmitter/receiver pair being further configured, or operable to be configured, to operate at a selectable data rate with data transmitted in bursts, the data rate being a function of a burst-on duty cycle, and the transmitter being average power limited.
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Abstract
A burst-mode phase shift keying (PSK) communications system according to an embodiment of the present invention enables practical, power-efficient, multi-rate communications between an optical transmitter and receiver. Embodiments may operate on differential PSK (DPSK) signals. An embodiment of the system utilizes a single interferometer in the receiver with a relative path delay that is matched to the DPSK symbol rate of the link. DPSK symbols are transmitted in bursts, and the data rate may be varied by changing the ratio of the burst-on time to the burst-off time. This approach offers a number of advantages over conventional DPSK implementations, including near-optimum photon efficiency over a wide range of data rates, simplified multi-rate transceiver implementation, and relaxed transmit laser line-width requirements at low data rates.
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67 Claims
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1. An optical communications system, comprising:
an optical transmitter/receiver pair configured, or operable to be configured, to communicate via a dedicated communications path extending an entire distance between a transmitter and a receiver of the optical transmitter/receiver pair in a given direction along the dedicated communications path, the transmitter/receiver pair being further configured, or operable to be configured, to operate at a selectable data rate with data transmitted in bursts, the data rate being a function of a burst-on duty cycle, and the transmitter being average power limited. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 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, 32, 33)
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34. A method of communicating in an optical communications system, the method comprising:
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transmitting, by an optical transmitter, via a dedicated communications path in a given direction along the dedicated communications path, transmitting being at a selectable data rate with data transmitted in bursts using average power limited waveforms, the data rate being a function of a burst-on duty cycle; and receiving, by an optical receiver, the data at the selectable data rate via the dedicated communications path, the dedicated communications path extending an entire distance between the optical transmitter and optical receiver. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66)
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67. An optical communications system, comprising:
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means for optically transmitting data via a dedicated communications path in a given direction along the dedicated communications path in bursts at a selectable data rate using average power limited waveforms, the data rate being a function of a burst-on duty cycle; and means for optically receiving, via the communications path, the data at the selectable data rate, the means for transmitting and the means for receiving being configured to operate as a pair, the dedicated communications path extending an entire distance between the means for optically transmitting and means for optically receiving.
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