发明名称 Method and apparatus for maintaining optical alignment for free-space optical communication
摘要 The present invention provides a method and apparatus for free-space optical communication. The method comprises the steps of receiving a receive optical beam through a narrow field of view, determining a receive power level, shifting an alignment, maximizing the receive power, and transmitting a transmit optical beam along the alignment, wherein the narrow field of view is less than a divergence of the transmit optical beam. The narrow field of view can be a narrow region of a multi-region field of view. The apparatus comprises an optical beam transmitter configured to generate a narrow diverging transmit beam, a narrow field of view optical receiver, wherein the field of view is less than the divergence of the transmit beam, and a controller configured to determine a power level of a receive beam and to determine adjustments to a direction of transmission maximizing receive power.
申请公布号 US7120363(B2) 申请公布日期 2006.10.10
申请号 US20020326852 申请日期 2002.12.20
申请人 LIGHTPOINTE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 发明人 ANDREU-VON EUW CHRISTIAN;NEFF BRIAN W.;OSCOLAI CATHAL;MUELLER OLAF
分类号 H04B10/00;H04B10/10 主分类号 H04B10/00
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