Optical terminal for lidar and optical communication and method for operating

Abstract

An optical terminal for lidar and optical communication, with a transmitter section, including a first transmitter unit configured to emit a first communication signal at a first wavelength, a second transmitter unit configured to emit a first quantum signal at a second wavelength; and a receiver section, including a first receiver unit configured to receive a second communication signal at a third wavelength, a second receiver unit configured to receive a lidar signal at the first wavelength, and a controller configured to control an emission of the first transmitter unit and the second transmitter unit, extract data from the received communication signal, and determine a time-of-flight of the lidar signal based on the emission of the first communication signal. Also a method for operating an optical terminal.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.