The optical coupling of analog signals

Author

Simões, J. Basílio ; Silva, Rui M C ; Morgado, Antonio Miguel L S ; Correia, Carlos M.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Fisica, Coimbra Univ., Portugal

Volume

43

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1672

Lastpage

1674

Abstract

An optocoupling circuit based on the Siemens IL300 linear optocoupler and the methods to assess its static and dynamic performances are presented. It is shown that IL300, due to its built-in linearizing feedback photodiode, makes it possible to build coupling schemes that associate good linearity with the inherent properties of optical devices, as true galvanic isolation, high isolation voltage and transmission down to dc. The integral linearity, 0.029%, obtained on the coupling of typical nuclear spectroscopy pulses makes us believe that traditional capacitive coupling used in nuclear spectroscopy circuits can be replaced by optical coupling in the near future

Keywords

analogue processing circuits; detector circuits; nuclear electronics; optical couplers; optical information processing; opto-isolators; particle spectrometers; photodiodes; Siemens IL300 linear optocoupler; analog signals; built-in linearizing feedback photodiode; high isolation voltage; integral linearity; nuclear spectroscopy pulses; optical coupling; optocoupling circuit; true galvanic isolation; Coupling circuits; Galvanizing; Linearity; Optical coupling; Optical devices; Optical feedback; Optical pulses; Photodiodes; Spectroscopy; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.507168

Filename

507168