Patent ID: 11949455
Assignee: AVICENATECH, CORP.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of providing inverse-multiplexed optical data transmission, comprising:
demultiplexing each of a plurality of serial input electrical data signals for transmission to form a plurality of parallel input electrical data signals, with corresponding parallel input electrical data signals for each of the serial input data signals;
driving microLEDs of an array of microLEDs to emit light based on the parallel input electrical data signals;
passing the light through cores of a multicore fiber, with light from different microLEDs passing through different cores of the multicore fiber;
forming parallel output electrical data signals by an array of photodetectors receiving the light passed through the cores of the multicore fiber; and
multiplexing the parallel output electrical data signals to form serial output electrical data signals;
wherein the array of microLEDs comprises a plurality of sub-arrays of microLEDs, and each of the corresponding parallel input electrical data signals are provided to different ones of the sub-arrays of microLEDs;
wherein the array of photodetectors comprises a plurality of sub-arrays of photodetectors, and each of the sub-arrays of photodetectors receives light emitted by a corresponding one of the sub-arrays of microLEDs; and
wherein the array of photodetectors comprises a plurality of sub-arrays of photodetectors, and each of the sub-arrays of photodetectors receives light emitted by a corresponding one of the sub-arrays of microLEDs; and
further comprising, for each sub-array of microLEDs, driving a microLED of the array of microLEDs with an input electrical clock signal, passing light emitted by the at least one microLED driven by the input electrical clock signal through at least one core of the multicore fiber, and forming an output electrical clock signal by at least one photodetector of a corresponding one of the sub-arrays of photodetectors.