US 12,308,891 B2
Architecture for increased power conversion in a power conversion over laser system
Stephen Palese, Redondo Beach, CA (US); Luis Angelo Larco Gomez, San Francisco, CA (US); and Mauro Goncalves de Oliveira Filho, Los Gatos, CA (US)
Assigned to TAARA CONNECT, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by TAARA CONNECT, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 18, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/746,218.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/527,465, filed on Jul. 18, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0030488 A1, Jan. 23, 2025
Int. Cl. H04B 10/80 (2013.01)
CPC H04B 10/807 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of converting power received in one or more optical power beams to electrical power, the method comprising:
receiving, at an OPA of a first optical terminal, a first optical power beam from a remote optical terminal;
determining, by one or more processors of the first optical terminal, a first distribution of the received first optical power beam across a plurality of cells, wherein the plurality of cells are configured to convert power from the from optical power beams to electrical power and, the first distribution is determined based on an initial conversion capability of each of the plurality of cells;
distributing, by an optical switch matrix, power from the first optical power beam across the plurality of cells based on the determined first distribution; and
converting, by the plurality, at least a portion of the first optical power beam to electrical power.