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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:
Nov. 21, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 26, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Edward Tegge, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Jon Holmes, West Melbourne, FL (US);
Assignee:
Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 29 ; 372 38 ;
Abstract
A laser driver for an injection laser diode (ILD) protects the ILD during ILD temperature changes so that the ILD is not subjected to a potentially harmful operating current. The ILD may be operated near it maximum limit and modulated by decreasing the available current to the ILD. The temperature of the ILD may be sensed and the maximum ILD driving current changed proportionally to a change of the sensed temperature.