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US 11,153,670 B1Granted
Communication system employing optical frame templates
AssigneeNubis Communications, Inc.
InventorPeter Johannes Winzer
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Abstract
An optical communication system comprises an optical communication device and an optical power supply configured to generate a sequence of optical frame templates directed to the optical communication device. The optical communication device may use the received optical frame templates as a light source for generating data-loaded optical frames and/or may extract from the optical frame templates control information encoded therein using one or more headers thereof.
Claims39
An apparatus comprising:
- a first optical interface connectable to receive a sequence of optical frame templates, each of the optical frame templates comprising a respective frame header and a respective frame body, the frame body comprising a respective optical pulse train;
- an optical splitter connected to the first optical interface;
- an optical modulator connected to a first output of the optical splitter and configured to load data into the respective frame bodies to convert the sequence of optical frame templates into a corresponding sequence of loaded optical frames;
- and
- an optical receiver connected to a second output of the optical splitter and configured to extract control information from the respective frame headers.
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A system comprising:
- a first network device comprising:
- an input optical interface configured to receive a sequence of optical frame templates, each of the optical frame templates comprising a frame header and a frame body, the frame body comprising an optical pulse train;
- an optical splitter optically coupled to the first optical interface and configured to separate the sequence of optical frame templates into at least a first group of optical frame templates and a second group of optical frame templates;
- a first optical modulator configured to load first data into frame bodies of the first group of optical frame templates to generate a first sequence of loaded optical frames;
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- an optical receiver configured to extract control information from the frame headers of the second group of optical frame templates.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a sequence of optical frame templates, each of the optical frame templates comprising a respective frame header and a respective frame body, the frame body comprising a respective optical pulse train;
- separating the sequence of optical frame templates into a first group of optical frame templates and a second group of optical frame templates;
- modulating the optical pulse trains of the frame bodies of the first group of optical frame templates based on data to generate a sequence of loaded optical frames;
- and
- extracting control information from the frame headers of the second group of optical frame templates.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.