Patent ID: 11949457
Assignee: ATTOCHRON, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. The optical system of claim 1, wherein:
the filtered plurality of pulses includes at least a first pulse that is transmitted over an optical communication distance to a detector having a photoreceiver;
as the first pulse traverses over the optical communication distance, photons, of the first pulse, travel along a plurality of ray paths having different lengths to the photoreceiver;
the photons of the first pulse of light arrive at the photoreceiver according to a temporal distribution curve that depends, at least in part, on a duration of the first pulse and the different lengths of the plurality of ray paths taken by the photons in the first pulse to the photoreceiver; and
a full width at half maximum (FWHM) value of the temporal distribution curve is at least three times as large as a coherence time value equal to a coherence length of the first pulse divided by a speed of light through a variably refractive medium.