ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,927, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Tunable optical carrier-to-sideband ratio filtering and down-converting coherent radio frequency (RF) photonic link" was invented by David B. Borlaug (Harbor City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating first and second optical carrier signals having a specified frequency offset. The method also includes modulating an RF input signal onto a portion of the first optical carrier signal to generate modulated optical signals, where the modulated optical signals include the portion of the first optical carrier signal and sideband signals. The...