Photonic switch employing shared data transmission facility
US5073980A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 29, 1989 |
| Grant date | Dec 17, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 29, 2009 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04Q11/0066
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An optical message distribution system is described which includes both a plurality of message sources and destinations. Each optical message includes a destination address portion and a data portion containing data signals. At a message source, an encoder generates, for each data signal of one kind, an optical pulse whose time position relative to a frame is indicative of a message destination address. An optical summer, common to all message sources combines the optical pulses onto an optical transmission medium and transmits them to an optical decoder associated with the each message destination. Each optical decoder determines if the time position of a received optical pulse relative to the frame is equal to a preset time delay, and if so, generates a data pulse of the one kind for the message destination.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.