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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:
May. 22, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2004
Applicant:
Karl Schrodinger, Berlin, DE;
Inventor:
Karl Schrodinger, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
Finisar Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/08 (2006.01); H03G 3/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A receiver circuit having an optical reception device and having an amplifier connected to the reception device, the amplifier also having a circuit for setting the operating point of the amplifier and also at least one control terminal of the circuit, by which the operating point of the amplifier can be selectively changed between at least two values at the user end. The receiver circuit according to the invention enables a noise optimization of the amplifier by virtue of an adjustability of the operating point of the amplifier.