825results about "Electromagnetic network arrangements" patented technology

Various embodiments provide for clock signal distribution within a processor, such as a machine learning (ML) processor, using a photonic fabric.

Various embodiments provide for electro-photonic networks, including a plurality of processing elements connected by bidirectional photonic channels, suited for implementing neural-network models. Weights of the model may be preloaded into memory of the processing elements based on assignments of neural nodes to processing elements implementing them, and routers of the processing elements can be configured to stream activations between the processing elements based on a predetermined flow of activations in the model.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether a first device is communicating under a bandwidth surplus with a fixed network, wherein the bandwidth surplus results at least in part from use by the first device of one or more link aggregation groups, wherein the one or more link aggregation groups comprise one or more satellite broadband communication channels as well as licensed cellular wireless spectrum, unlicensed wireless spectrum, or a combination of the licensed cellular and unlicensed spectrum; determining whether a second device is communicating under a bandwidth deficit with the fixed network; and responsive to the first device communicating under the bandwidth surplus and responsive to the second device communicating under the bandwidth deficit, allocating at least a portion of the bandwidth surplus associated with the first device to the second device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A system includes a housing and a first circuit board positioned inside the housing. The housing has a top panel, a bottom panel, a left side panel, a right side panel, a front panel, and a rear panel. The front panel is at an angle relative to the bottom panel in which the angle is in a range from 30 to 150°. The first circuit board has a length, a width, and a thickness, in which the length is at least twice the thickness, the width is at least twice the thickness, and the first circuit board has a first surface defined by the length and the width. The first surface of the first circuit board is at a first angle relative to the bottom panel in which the first angle is in a range from 30 to 150°. The first surface of the first circuit board is substantially parallel to the front panel or at a second angle relative to the front panel in which the second angle is less than 60°. The system includes a first data processing module and a first optical interconnect module both electrically coupled to the first circuit board. The optical interconnect module is configured to receive first optical signals from a first optical link, convert the first optical signals to first electrical signals, and transmit the first electrical signals to the first data processing module.

A communication apparatus for performing underwater visible light communication with a target communication apparatus includes a visible light communicator that transmits and receives a visible light signal including communication data, a sound wave communicator that receives a sound wave signal including information used to control establishment of visible light communication connection, the sound wave signal having been transmitted from the target communication apparatus or another communication apparatus, and a controller that performs control to establish the visible light communication connection with the target communication apparatus, based on the information included in the received sound wave signal.

A redundancy link includes a first optical splitter and a second optical splitter. The first optical splitter includes (i) a first hub-side port that optically couples to a first optical line terminal, a first hub-side failover-mode port, (iii) a first plurality of node-side splitter-ports each optically coupled to the first hub-side port and the first hub-side failover-mode port, (iii) a first failover-mode port coupled to the first hub-side port. The second optical splitter includes (i) a second hub-side port that optically couples to a second optical line terminal, a second hub-side failover-mode port optically coupled to the first failover-mode port, (iii) a second plurality of node-side splitter-ports each optically coupled to the second hub-side port and the second hub-side failover-mode port, (iii) a second failover-mode port coupled to the second hub-side port.

The invention provides an optical network communication method and a communication device, the method is applied to an optical fiber network, the optical fiber network comprises a master device and at least one slave device, and the at least one slave device comprises a first slave device. Wherein in the initialization phase, after receiving the authentication encryption capability of the slave device, the master device can indicate a determined authentication encryption mode (e.g., a first authentication encryption mode) to the slave device, so that the authentication encryption capability of the slave device is enhanced in a subsequent process (e.g., a roaming parameter configuration process). The master device does not need to configure security-related parameters such as an authentication encryption mode for the slave device, so that the configuration efficiency is improved, and the configuration overhead is saved.

Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of data transmission, and provide a high-speed optical communication connector and a server. Multiplexing of a module low-speed signal MODSEL and a negative clock signal is realized by means of a first signal pin, and multiplexing of an optical module reset signal or a positive clock signal is realized by means of a second signal pin, so that a high-speed optical communication connector comprising the first signal pin and the second signal pin can achieve both optical signal data transmission and PCIe protocol signal transmission, long-distance data transmission of PCIE bus data is achieved on the basis of an existing optical fiber network, the transmission efficiency of the PCIE bus data is improved, and resource waste of existing network infrastructure is avoided.

This system and method of for providing a tunable orbital angular momentum system for providing higher order Bessel beams comprising: an acousto-optical deflector configured to receive an input beam, deflect a first portion of the input beam a first deflection angle relative to an axis of propagation and along an optical axis and deflect a second portion of the input beam a second deflection angle relative to the optical axis; a line generator disposed along the optical angle for receiving the first portion and the second portion of the input beam and provide an elliptical Gaussian mean; a log-polar optics assembly disposed along the optical angle for receiving the elliptical Gaussian beam and wrapping the elliptical Gaussian beam with an asymmetric ring; and, a Fourier lens configured to receive the wrapped elliptical Gaussian beam.

Electro-photonic networks, including a plurality of processing elements connected by bidirectional photonic channels, suited for implementing neural-network models. Weights of the model may be preloaded into memory of the processing elements based on assignments of neural nodes to processing elements implementing them, and routers of the processing elements can be configured to stream activations between the processing elements based on a predetermined flow of activations in the model.

The invention discloses an optical fiber terahertz communication system optimization method based on artificial intelligence, and belongs to the technical field of communication. According to the method, four-dimensional constellation shaping is constructed by utilizing additional dimensions provided by two independent sidebands, and an end-to-end optimization framework is divided into a training stage and a deployment stage; in the training stage, firstly, an equalizer based on a pruning neural network and an equalized channel model based on a mixed density network are trained in sequence through receiving and transmitting of a random training sequence; then connecting a constellation shaper at a transmitting end with a demapper at a receiving end through an equalized channel model with fixed parameters, thereby considering full-link residual distortion and noise after equalization, and carrying out back propagation gradient to learn a globally optimal four-dimensional joint geometric probability constellation diagram to further approach the Shannon limit; and in the deployment stage, transmission of the bit stream is realized through coordination of the four-dimensional geometric shaping constellation table and the probability distribution obtained in the training stage and an equalizer at the receiving end and a demapper.

A wavelength-tunable optical transmission unit is configured to be able to transmit a channel setting optical signal including first channel information indicating a channel of the first channel setting optical signal. When receiving a channel setting optical signal from another optical transceiver, a wavelength-tunable optical reception unit forwards second channel information indicating a channel of the channel setting optical signal. A control unit includes an arithmetic unit that sets the channel to be used for the transmission by the wavelength-tunable optical transmission unit and the channel to be used for the reception by the wavelength-tunable optical reception unit, and a non-volatile storage unit. The arithmetic unit writes, to the non-volatile storage unit, only information indicating the channel determined to be used for the transmission by the wavelength-tunable optical transmission unit and the channel determined to be used for the reception by the wavelength-tunable optical reception unit.

Transport networks, network elements, and methods of use are described herein, including a transmitter comprising a client-side input, transmitter circuitry, and antennas. The client-side input is configured to receive baseband signals having client data encoded therein. The transmitter circuitry is configured to receive the baseband signals from the client-side input and generate antenna feed signals based on the baseband signals. The antennas are configured to receive the antenna feed signals from the transmitter circuitry, generate radiated signals based on the antenna feed signals, and couple the radiated signals into a hollow waveguide. Each of the radiated signals is a radiated electromagnetic wave configured for coherent detection and has a frequency in a range between 300 Gigahertz (GHz) and 10 Terahertz (THz).

Provided is an optical access system that performs communication using an optical signal on which management control signals used for management and control are superimposed in a plurality of transmission lines connecting a plurality of subscriber devices, the optical access system including: a plurality of splitters that are provided for the respective transmission lines and split a plurality of optical signals transmitted from the plurality of subscriber devices; a monitoring unit configured to acquire the management control signals from each of the plurality of optical signals split by each of the plurality of splitters; and an output device that is provided between the monitoring unit and the plurality of splitters and outputs the plurality of optical signals split by the plurality of splitters to the monitoring unit.

The embodiment of the invention provides a data transmission method for optical communication and a related device. Specifically, a transmitting end acquires a superframe comprising a plurality of subframes, the subframes comprising pilot symbols. Wherein, in one polarization direction, the number NPS of pilot symbols in the subframe is an even number greater than 0. Each pilot symbol is one of four complex numbers, namely-A-Aj,-A + Aj, A-Aj and A + Aj, and A is a real number. Each continuous NPG symbols in the subframe comprises one pilot symbol located at a fixed position. The superframe comprises a first type of subframe, the first type of subframe further comprises NFAW frame synchronization symbols, and each frame synchronization symbol is one of four complex numbers of-A-Aj,-A + Aj, A-Aj and A + Aj. One symbol in the first type of subframes is both a pilot symbol and a frame synchronization symbol, and the NFAW is an odd number. And further, the transmitting end transmits the superframe. It should be understood that there is no training symbol in the subframe, which has lower redundancy and simplifies the structure of the subframe.

The present disclosure relates to an enclosure mounting apparatus (e.g., a mounting bracket which may include a mounting plate) having a molded plastic construction. In certain examples, the enclosure mounting apparatus is configured to be compatible with a number of different styles (e.g., sizes, models, etc.) of telecommunications enclosures.

An optical wireless communication (OWC) transmitter apparatus comprises: a plurality of transmitters, each transmitter having a respective field-of-view in respect of which it is configured to transmit OWC signals; and a controller configured to select which of the transmitters transmit the OWC signals, thereby determining a transmission zone to which the OWC signals are transmitted by the apparatus, wherein the transmission zone comprises at least one sub-zone, each sub-zone corresponding to the field-of-view of a respective one of the transmitters.

The invention provides an optical network communication method and a communication device, the method is applied to an optical fiber network, the optical fiber network comprises a master device and at least one slave device, and the at least one slave device comprises a first slave device. Wherein in the initialization phase, after receiving the authentication encryption capability of the slave device, the master device can indicate a determined authentication encryption mode (e.g., a first authentication encryption mode) to the slave device, so that the authentication encryption capability of the slave device is enhanced in a subsequent process (e.g., a roaming parameter configuration process). The master device does not need to configure security-related parameters such as an authentication encryption mode for the slave device, so that the configuration efficiency is improved, and the configuration overhead is saved.

The present disclosure includes a compute express link (CXL) switch having a switch fabric, that includes a first plurality of electrical ports, each electrical port of the first plurality of electrical ports configured for electrical communication to a host. There are a second plurality of electrical ports and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the first and second pluralities of electrical ports. There is a memory and an optical engine directly coupled to the switch fabric. The optical engine includes a plurality of converters, each converter of the plurality of converters corresponding to one electrical port of the second plurality of electrical ports and configured to at least one of convert an electrical signal to an optical signal or an optical signal to an electrical signal. There are a plurality of optical ports, each optical port of the plurality of optical ports corresponding to one converter of the plurality of converters and configured for optical communication to a device.

Various embodiments provide for clock signal distribution within a processor, such as a machine learning (ML) processor, using a photonic fabric.

A communication network includes a coherent optics transmitter, a coherent optics receiver, an optical transport medium operably coupling the coherent optics transmitter to the coherent optics receiver, and a coherent optics interface. The coherent optics interface includes a lineside interface portion, a clientside interface portion, and a control interface portion.

A WXC device includes: input ports; output ports; a wavelength conversion unit including input-side WSSes, wavelength converters, and output-side WSSes; and a controller. The input-side WSSes each output an optical signal input from a corresponding one of the input ports to a selected one of the wavelength converters. The wavelength converters each convert a wavelength band of the optical signal input from each of the input-side WSSes into another wavelength band and output the converted optical signal to a respective one of the output-side WSSes. The output-side WSSes each perform route switching on the optical signal input from the respective one of the wavelength converters toward a selected one of the output ports. The controller manages, for each of the wavelength converters, whether the wavelength converter is unused and controls the input-side WSSes each to output the input optical signal to one of the unused wavelength converters.

The invention discloses an optical communication system and an optical communication method. An optical communication system includes a first device, an optical splitter, and a plurality of second devices. The first device is used for sending a first optical signal, the first optical signal is respectively transmitted to the plurality of second devices after being shunted by the optical splitter, and the first optical signal carries an analog radio frequency signal. The plurality of second devices are used for sending second optical signals respectively, the plurality of second optical signals are transmitted to the first device after passing through the optical splitter, and each second optical signal carries an analog radio frequency signal. The optical signal for communication between the first device and the second device bears the analog radio frequency signal, and the analog radio frequency signal does not need to be converted into a digital signal, packaged into an optical protocol frame format and then modulated into the optical signal. In this way, communication between the first device and the second device does not involve the optical protocol conversion process of optical protocol frame format encapsulation and de-encapsulation, the service delay of the system is reduced, the system structure is simpler, and power consumption and cost are reduced.

The invention relates to a chip and a module for optical interconnection, and a device and a system using the optical interconnection module. The chip comprises photon integrated circuit sub-modules, each sub-module comprises a plurality of first optical switching units, and each first optical switching unit is configured to selectively output an optical signal input by a first optical input port of the first optical switching unit through any optical output port; an on-chip optical switch which is optically connected with the first optical switching unit and is configured to select an output port to output an optical signal input by any one optical input port of the on-chip optical switch; a plurality of modulators optically connected to the first optical switching unit; a plurality of detectors, at least a portion of which is optically connected to the on-chip optical switch; a plurality of first optical couplers configured to optically connect the first optical switching unit with a first external optical fiber array; and a second optical coupler in optical connection with at least a portion of the detector and configured to transmit the optical signal from the second external optical fiber array to the portion of the detector.

The invention provides an optical network communication method and device, and the method comprises the steps: a first slave device can receive a rate amplification factor from a main device, and the rate amplification factor is an adjustment coefficient of a first rate (i.e., the attribute value of a CIR attribute / PIR attribute); the first slave device determines a second rate (i.e., a valid CIR / PIR of the first slave device) by means of the rate amplification factor and the first rate. Therefore, even if the value of the first rate is limited, the effective CIR / PIR of the first slave device can be adjusted through the rate amplification factor. In other words, on the basis of not changing the existing attributes, the value of the CIR / PIR used by the first slave device during working is expanded. And the CIR / PIR configuration problem of a 50G PON and a future higher-rate PON is solved.

An optical node device to which a first subscriber device and a second subscriber device are connected in an optical communication system in which the first subscriber device and the second subscriber device are mixed, the first subscriber device being connected by one core using different wavelengths in transmission and reception, the second subscriber device being connected by two cores using the same wavelength in transmission and reception, the optical node device including: a transmission / reception separator that transfers an optical signal transmitted from the first subscriber device and an optical signal addressed to the first subscriber device without interference; and an optical switch that controls a connection relationship between ports such that an optical signal transmitted from the first subscriber device or an optical signal addressed to the first subscriber device passes through the transmission / reception separator and an optical signal transmitted from the second subscriber device or an optical signal addressed to the second subscriber device does not pass through the transmission / reception separator, and outputs an optical signal input from a certain optical transmission line from another optical transmission line.

An optical communication device includes: a first optical switch that is connected to a plurality of optical transmission lines and outputs an optical signal input from any of the optical transmission lines to another optical transmission line; a second optical switch that is connected to a plurality of optical transmission lines and outputs an optical signal input from any of the optical transmission lines to another optical transmission line; and a multicast transfer unit configured to perform multicast transfer of an optical signal transmitted from a first device connected to the first optical switch to one or more second devices connected to the second optical switch.

A network controller included in an optical transmission system in which an optical transmitter and an optical receiver communicate with each other via an optical transmission path, the network controller including a simulator that constructs simulation models by virtually reproducing a state of an optical transmission path in an optical transmission system including the optical transmitter, the optical receiver, and the optical transmission path in different virtual spaces, and estimates a characteristic of a device provided in the optical transmission path in each of simulation models, and an ideal output estimator that estimates an output of a characteristic of an ideal device based on a characteristic of the device estimated by the simulator and a characteristic of a device provided in the optical transmission path obtained in a real space, in which a state of an optical transmission path is different for each of the simulation models.