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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:
Apr. 05, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Agoston Agoston, Beaverton, OR (US);
Assignee:
Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 38 ; 307311 ; 307319 ; 372 25 ; 372 26 ;
Abstract
A reverse current transmitted through an initially forward biased step-recovery diode causes the step-recovery diode to switch from the forward biased state to a reverse biased state, thereby developing an abruptly rising reverse bias voltage across the step-recovery diode. The abruptly rising reverse bias voltage is applied across a series combination of a capacitor and a laser diode, connected in parallel with the step-recovery diode to force a short, abrupt forward current pulse through the laser diode, thereby causing the laser diode to emit a short optical pulse.