US 12,451,965 B2
Modular integrated optical transceivers and arrays formed therewith
Ethan Earl Becker, Centennial, CO (US); Michael Morton Morrell, Frederick, CO (US); Paul Searcy, Niwot, CO (US); and Barry Matsumori, Rolling Hills Estates, CA (US)
Assigned to BridgeComm, Inc., Lafayette, CO (US)
Filed by BridgeComm, Inc., Denver, CO (US)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/677,748.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/152,227, filed on Feb. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0271838 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. H04B 10/40 (2013.01)
CPC H04B 10/40 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical transceiver system for transmitting and receiving optical signals, the system comprising:
a plurality of optical transceiver modules, each one of the plurality of optical transceiver modules including therein
a modular integrated optical transceiver and
a control system for controlling components within the modular integrated optical transceiver,
wherein, in each one of the plurality of optical transceiver modules,
the modular integrated optical transceiver is configured for receiving and transmitting the optical signals over a range of angles, the optical signals including transmit and receive signals,
the control system is configured for providing transmit signals to the modular integrated optical transceiver and,
the control system is further configured for receiving receive signals from the modular integrated optical transceiver,
wherein the plurality of optical transceiver modules, collectively, allow transmitting and receiving of the optical signals over a wider range of angles than the range of angles for each modular integrated optical transceiver included in one of the plurality of optical transceiver modules, without mechanically translating the modular integrated optical transceiver,
wherein each one of the plurality of optical transceiver modules is configured to be connected, disconnected, and arrayed at will with other one of the plurality of optical transceiver modules in a flexible and scalable implementation,
wherein each one of the modular integrated optical transceiver modules includes:
a fine steering mirror,
a liquid crystal switch,
a quarter-wave plate,
a Faraday rotator,
a polarizing beam splitter,
a beam sampler,
a focusing lens,
a position sensitive detector quad cell,
a receive collimator, and
a transmit collimator, and
wherein the fine steering mirror and the liquid crystal switch cooperate to provide non-mechanical beam steering over the wider range of angles.