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

Claim 5:
6. An optical communication apparatus for transmitting inverse-multiplexed data, comprising:
an inverse multiplexer having an input for one or more serial input electrical signals and configured to produce parallel input electrical signals;
transmitter circuitry configured to receive the parallel input electrical signals and drive microLEDs to produce parallel optical signals;
a first optical coupling assembly to couple light from the microLEDs to a first end of a multicore fiber;
a second optical coupling assembly to couple light from a second end of the multicore fiber to photodetectors to produce parallel output electrical signals; and
a multiplexer having a plurality of inputs configured to receive the parallel output electrical signals and convert the parallel output electrical signals to serial output electrical signals; and
further comprising:
an error-correcting code (ECC) encoder, the ECC encoder configured to generate error correction electrical signals based on the parallel input electrical signals, and wherein the transmitter circuitry is further configured to receive the error correction electrical signals and drive additional microLEDs to produce error correction optical signals, and wherein the parallel optical signals include the error correction optical signals; and
an ECC decoder, the ECC decoder configured to correct errors in the parallel output electrical signals.