Patent · US Expired

Transmission and reception module for bi-directional optical message and signal transmission

US5127075A · kind A · utility

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13Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Hans-Ludwig Althaus · Lappersdorf, DE
Alfred Hartl · Nittendorf, DE
Werner Spaeth · Holzkirchen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 26, 1991
Grant date	Jun 30, 1992
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 26, 2011

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B6/4246
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Within a common housing are mounted an autonomous light transmitter having its own transmitter optical coupling element, an autonomous light receiver, a part for connecting a common optical fiber to the common housing, and a beam splitter arranged in the beam path within the common housing. The autonomous light transmitter and the autonomous light receiver are each within their own hermetically sealed encapsulations and it is these hermetically sealed autonomous components which are mounted within the common housing.

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