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Adaptive polarization separation

US4264908A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 6, 1979
Grant dateApr 28, 1981
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 6, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01Q21/245
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A broadband adaptively controlled polarization separation network. Two transmitted signals vertically and horizontally polarized are received as elleptically polarized signals. One of the two received elliptically polarized signals is automatically adjusted to make it linear and thereafter automatically adjusted to make it vertical. If the other signal does not have any vertical polarization on it then the two signals are easily separated and nothing else is needed. However, if there is any vertical polarization on the other signal this invention provides for separating the resulting crosstalk between the two signals. This is done automatically by the use of two sets of crosscouplers which couple a single line to the other line to complete the polarization decoupling operation.

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