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Date of Patent
June 4, 2019
Patent Application Number
15078413
Date Filed
March 23, 2016
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A communications satellite system that provides one terabit/second throughput utilizing passive optical beamforming networks. An onboard telescope couples uplinked optical beams into an onboard optical signal processing system via an optical waveguide. The passive optical signal processing system comprises an optical demultiplexer, a multiplicity of single-sideband filters, and a multiplicity of optical beamforming networks. The optical beamforming networks and the SSB filters may comprise optical ring resonators. The output of the optical signal processing system is converted into electrical signals which are sent to a phased-array transmit antenna. The user links are in the radio-frequency (RF) domain.
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