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Electro-optical transceiver system with controlled lateral leakage and method of making it

US6344664B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateSep 1, 2000
Grant dateFeb 5, 2002
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Expiry dateSep 1, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01S5/423
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An electro-optical transceiver system with controlled lateral light leakage and a method of making such a system includes a plurality of emitter devices and detector devices including at least one of each, arranged in a planar array for transmitting and receiving, respectively, energy in a predetermined wavelength and a blocking medium disposed interstitially of the devices and being absorbing at the predetermined wavelength for blocking energy at the predetermined wavelength laterally leaking from an emitter device to one or more detector devices.

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