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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 1995

Filed:

Jul. 30, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jean-Francois Queniat, Trebeurden, FR;

Andre Jaillard, Lannion, FR;

Assignee:

France Telecom, Paris, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 29 ; 372 34 ; 372 38 ; 372 43 ; 372109 ; 372 50 ;
Abstract

A device for the control of the output power of laser diodes designed to be coupled to an optical fiber for the tranmission of data comprises a photodiode that can be used to acquire a characteristic signal of the power emitted by the laser diode; digital means to drive the laser diode comprising a central processing unit associated with servo-control computation program memorizing means to keep a constant output power whatever may be the drift and change of slope of the characteristic of the laser diode in response to ageing phenomena or to a change in temperature or to a loss of power due to the coupling of this diode with an optical fiber or to variations in the response of the photodiode as a function of the temperature. Application to digital transmission by optical fiber.


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