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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1987
Filed:
Jan. 02, 1985
Michael M Fitelson, Dewitt, NY (US);
Stephen Wanuga, Liverpool, NY (US);
Jack B Williams, Liverpool, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Syracuse, NY (US);
Abstract
A monolithically integrated circuit is described for multiplexing parallel electrical data into a serial bit stream for transmission by fiber optics to a remote utilization apparatus and for demultiplexing a serial bit stream received from a fiber optics transmission path from a remote source. The integrated circuit uses a separate fiber for transmission and for reception, and in the transmission mode, encodes the data, which is clocked by on chip clocking into a self-clocking three-level code. The integrated circuit utilizes GaAs as the substrate material and is capable of transmitting data at bit rates in excess of 1/2 gHz.