Patent ID: 11956016
Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A coherent optical sensing and communication system comprising:
a multicore optical fiber that includes first and second cores;
a first communication device optically coupled to a first end of the first core of the multicore optical fiber, the first communication device having a first local oscillator that generates a first local oscillating signal;
a second communication device optically coupled to a second end of the first core of the multicore optical fiber, the second communication device having a second local oscillator that receives the first local oscillating signal;
a first sensing device optically coupled to a first end of a third core of the multicore optical fiber, the first sensing device having a third local oscillator that generates a second local oscillating signal; and
a second sensing device optically coupled to a second end of the third core of the multicore optical fiber, the second sensing device having a fourth local oscillator that receives the second local oscillating signal,
wherein the first and second communication devices exclusively exchange communication data along the first core,
wherein the first and second local oscillators exclusively exchange the first local oscillating signal along the second core,
wherein the first and second sensing devices exclusively exchange sensing data along the third core, and
wherein the third and fourth local oscillators exclusively exchange the second local oscillator signal along a fourth core of the multicore optical fiber.