High speed parallel burst modem

A modem for receiving a high frequency asynchronous data burst that is preceded by a unique word, the modem including a receiver that comprises:

• a down converter that shifts the frequency of a received asynchronous data burst;
• an analog to digital converter that samples the frequency shifted data burst;
• a demultiplexer that sequentially applies the samples to one of a plurality of channels each of which processes a portion of the asynchronous data burst in a frequency sub-band, each of the channels including:
• a filter and fast Fourier transformer that converts data received from the demultiplexer into data that has frequency components within one of the sub-bands;
• a unique word sub-band filter and a data sub-band filter that are selectively enabled in the channel to filter the data in the sub-band, wherein the unique word sub-band filter is matched to the unique word that precedes the data burst;
• an inverse fast Fourier transformer and filter that convert the filtered sub-band data to full spectrum filtered data
• a multiplexer that combines the data from the inverse fast Fourier transformer and filters of the plurality of channels to produce a filtered data burst;
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• a comparator that correlates the filtered data burst with the unique word, the comparator enabling the data sub-band filters in the channels when the filtered data burst correlates to the unique word.