Telecommunications – Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter – Signal selection based on frequency
Patent
1984-04-26
1986-06-17
Orsino, Jr., Joseph A.
Telecommunications
Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter
Signal selection based on frequency
250551, 350620, 455602, 455617, H04B 900
Patent
active
045960500
ABSTRACT:
An information processing system having an ellipsoid reflector, an optical signal processor, and a receiver. The ellipsoid reflector has an internal light-reflecting surface and first and second focal points. The optical signal processor includes a transmitter for transmitting a plurality of optically encoded signals along various distinct paths, where a portion of each path coincides with a line that passes through the first focal point. Where there signals travel along a path emanating from the first focal point, they are reflected by the ellipsoid reflector towards the second focal point. The receiver, which is at least partially located at the second focal point of the ellipsoid, collects those reflected signals for further processing. In a preferred embodiment the receiver includes a parabolic reflector with an external light-reflecting surface. Its focal point coincides with the second focal point of the ellipsoid reflector and its axis coincides with the major axis of the ellipsoid reflector. The system allows connectorless routing of optical signals from one part of an information processing system to another.
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