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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2004
Terrel L. Morris, Garland, TX (US);
David Martin Fenwick, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Richard John Luebs, Windsor, CO (US);
Duane A. Wegher, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Jeffry D. Yetter, Loveland, CO (US);
Terrel L. Morris, Garland, TX (US);
David Martin Fenwick, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Richard John Luebs, Windsor, CO (US);
Duane A. Wegher, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Jeffry D. Yetter, Loveland, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for configuring fiber optic communication channels between arrays of emitters and detectors comprises: an array of light emitters; an array of light detectors; a bundle of optical fibers disposed between the arrays of light emitters and light detectors for conducting light from the light emitters to the light detectors, wherein a diameter of each optical fiber in the bundle is greater than a diameter of light emitted from each light emitter in the array, and wherein an area cross-section of the bundle of optical fibers overlaps the array of light emitters and the array of light detectors; and logic for mapping at least one emitter to at least one detector to establish at least one fiber optic communication channel between the array of light emitters and the array of light detectors. A counterpart method is also disclosed.