US 12,273,143 B2
Method for operating an electro-optical transmission device for arbitrary signals, computer program product and data transmission device
Marc-Michael Meinecke, Sassenburg (DE); Heiko Gustav Kurz, Hannover (DE); Christoph Scheytt, Dorsten (DE); and Stephan Kruse, Paderborn (DE)
Assigned to Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed by Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/106,936.
Claims priority of application No. 102022201312.3 (DE), filed on Feb. 8, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0254039 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. H04B 10/00 (2013.01); G01S 7/03 (2006.01); G01S 13/931 (2020.01); H04B 10/112 (2013.01)
CPC H04B 10/112 (2013.01) [G01S 7/03 (2013.01); G01S 13/931 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating an electro-optical transmission device, comprising:
generating an optical carrier signal via an optical signal source of a base unit of the electro-optical transmission device;
generating an arbitrary signal via the optical signal source, the arbitrary signal comprising a modulated signal carrying data or radar information;
modulating the arbitrary signal onto the optical carrier signal in the base unit, to form a transmission signal;
transmitting the transmission signal to an antenna unit of the electro-optical transmission device via an optical transmission medium; and
separating the arbitrary signal and the carrier signal in the antenna unit.