Transimpedance amplifiers
CA 1203293 A · Owner: Western Electric Company, Incorporated · Inventors: Smoot, Lanny S.
Overview
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A transimpedance amplifier allows an optical transmitter and receiver to be in close proximity to each other without fear of overloading the receiver. The improvement increases the dynamic range of the transimpedance amplifier and thereby the operating range of the receiver. A peak detector (22) at the output of an inverting amplifier (11) within the transimpedance amplifier turns on a field effect transistor (FET) circuit (23) when an AC component of an electrical signal becomes so large that the inverting amplifier would otherwise go into saturation whereby the FET circuit (23) acts as an AC shunt impedance at the input of the inverting amplifier and diverts the excess AC current to …
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- Granted April 15, 1986. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 15, 2003.
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