摘要:
An optical transceiver for detecting an incoming light beam and for transmitting an outgoing light beam along a common optical axis is provided. Such an optical transceiver provides a compact optical transceiver that is suitable for a wide variety of applications.
摘要:
Simplified laser drivers for closed path digital optical cables and digital optical cables including the simplified laser drivers. The laser driver can include less transistors than conventional laser drivers for optical communication cables. The laser can include a bias source and modulation source. The bias source can have a single constant current bias point for all laser diodes. The modulation current source can have a single temperature coefficient for all laser diodes. The laser driver can exclude, for example, any one of or combination of temperature compensation of the modulation or bias current sources, external programming of the modulation or bias current sources, power control based on output of the laser diode, and/or control based on feedback received from a monitor device or other sensor within the cables.
摘要:
The present invention relates to opto-isolators. Opto-isolators are disclosed that include a transmitter package and a vertical VCSEL disposed within the transmitter package. The opto-isolators further include a receiver package and a photodetector disposed within the receiver package. The photodetector is optically coupled to the VCSEL and configured to receive an output optical signal generated by the VCSEL. The opto-isolators further include an alignment package configured to receive the transmitter package and the receiver package. In another embodiment, opto-isolators include a VCSEL and a photodetector optically coupled to the VCSEL and configured to receive an output optical signal generated by the VCSEL. The opto-isolators further include a package enclosing both the VCSEL and the photodetector.
摘要:
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protected semiconductor device. The semiconductor device is formed as a monolithic structure. The monolithic structure includes a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) and a protection diode. The protection diode cathode is electrically coupled to the VCSEL anode and the protection diode anode is electrically coupled to the VCSEL cathode so as to provide ESD protection to the VCSEL.
摘要:
Monolithic opto-isolators and arrays of monolithic opto-isolators are disclosed. The monolithic opto-isolators are manufactured in a single semiconductor wafer where they may be tested at the wafer level before each opto-isolator is singulated from the wafer. The monolithic opto-isolators include a VCSEL monolithically produced adjacent to a photodiode where an axis of optical signal transmission of the VCSEL is substantially parallel to an axis of optical signal reception by the photodiode.
摘要:
The present invention relates to controlling parameters of an optical output of an optical transmitter. An optical package can be selected based on a level of attenuation of a parameter of a transmitter output by the optical package. The laser and the optical package can be assembled and a parameter of the transmitter output can be measured. An optical barrel can be selected based on the measurement, wherein the optical barrel is selected based on an attenuation level to satisfy a range of a desired parameter value. The optical package and the optical barrel can be assembled. A system for assembling the optical device is also described.
摘要:
Methods and apparatus for monitoring the power level of one or more optical emitters are provided. In some embodiments, optical signals from two or more optical emitters are directed at different regions of a photo detector. The photo detector may include two or more spaced contacts that are adapted to receive different contributions of photo current from each of the optical signals. By monitoring the photo currents in the two or more spaced contacts, a measure of the optical power of each of the optical signals may be determined.
摘要:
A system and method for VCSEL (vertical cavity surface emitting laser) polarization control is disclosed, including methods and apparatus comprising a component package (302, 304) having self-aligning features (316, 318), for indicating an alignment axis (320, 322), and an upper surface aperture (314) formed therein, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser device (308) having two emission polarizations (204) normal to one another, disposed within the component package and aligned such that each emission polarization is at about 45 degrees with respect to the alignment axis, and a linear polarization element (400, 402, 406) having a polarization direction (206), spanning the aperture and disposed such that the polarization direction is parallel to the alignment axis.
摘要:
Methods and apparatus for monitoring the power level of a multi-wavelength optical signal are provided. Also provided are methods and apparatus for adjusting the power level of selected optical emitters to compensate for the changes in power levels.
摘要:
A light sensor comprises two light sensitive areas that are shaped to physically compensate for the decrease in light intensity resulting from movement of a movable object in which an aperture is formed. Movement of the aperture causes the light passing through the aperture to have a decreased circumscribed angle that results in a decrease of light intensity impinging on a light sensitive component. In order to avoid the nonlinearity that can result from the decrease in light intensity as a function of the physical position of a movable object being sensed, the light sensitive areas are tapered by selecting the width of the light sensitive area as a function of the distance from a reference line. The light sensitive areas are tapered by arranging the edges of the areas so that the minimum width of each of two light sensitive areas are abutting each other at the reference line and the edges of both light sensitive areas are tapered outward away from each other at positions farther from the reference line.