# US 2010/0166437 A1 · Optical detecting circuit, optical transmitting apparatus, and optical detecting method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2010/0166437 A1 - Document ID: US20100166437A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 12/585,351 - Filed: 2009-09-11 - Published: 2010-07-01 - Earliest claimed: 2007-03-14 - Assignees: Fujitsu Limited - Inventors: Kazukiyo Ogawa - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20100166437A1 ## CPC - H04B 10/07955: {Monitoring or measuring power} - G01J 1/44: Electric circuits {(for command of an exposure part G03B7/02)} - G01J 2001/4406: {Plural ranges in circuit, e.g. switchable ranges; Adjusting sensitivity selecting gain values} - H10F 30/00: Individual radiation-sensitive semiconductor devices in which radiation controls the flow of current through the devices, e.g. photodetectors - H04B: TRANSMISSION - G01J: MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT, POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRARED, VISIBLE OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; RADIATION PYROMETRY (light sources F21, H01J, H01K, H05B; investigating properties of materials by optical means G01N) - H10F: INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION ## Abstract An optical detecting circuit includes a PD receiving unit generating voltage depending on an optical level of input light, a high range amplifying unit amplifying the generated voltage, a low range amplifying unit amplifying the generated voltage by a gain larger than that of the high range amplifying unit, an A/D converting unit digitizing voltage levels of the output voltages of the high range amplifying unit and the low range amplifying unit, a selecting unit comparing the A/D conversion results with thresholds to select for output one of the digitized values of the voltage levels of the output voltages of the high range amplifying unit and the low range amplifying unit, and an output correcting unit obtaining a correction value depending on the selection result from a correcting table to add the correction value to the value selected by the selecting unit. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An optical detecting circuit that detects and outputs an optical level of input light, the optical detecting circuit comprising: an optical receiving unit that generates voltage depending on the optical level of the input light; a first amplifying unit that amplifies the voltage generated by the optical receiving unit; a second amplifying unit that amplifies the voltage generated by the optical receiving unit by a gain larger than that of the first amplifying unit; an A/D converting unit that digitizes voltage levels of output voltages of the first amplifying unit and the second amplifying unit; a selecting unit that compares conversion results of the A/D converting unit with a threshold to select for output one of digitized values of the voltage levels of the output voltages of the first amplifying unit and the second amplifying unit; and an output correcting unit that obtains a correction value depending on a selection result of the selecting unit from a storage unit to add the correction value to the value selected by the selecting unit. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The optical detecting circuit according to claim 1, further comprising a logarithm converting unit that converts the value selected by the selecting unit to a logarithm expression thereof based on a converting table stored in the storage unit in advance. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The optical detecting circuit according to claim 1, wherein the optical receiving unit uses a fixed resistor as a driving resistor. ### Claim 4 An optical transmitting apparatus including an optical detecting circuit that detects and outputs an optical level of an optical signal amplified by an optical amplifier, the optical detecting circuit comprising: an optical receiving unit that generates voltage depending on the optical level of input light; a first amplifying unit that amplifies the voltage generated by the optical receiving unit; a second amplifying unit that amplifies the voltage generated by the optical receiving unit by a gain larger than that of the first amplifying unit; an A/D converting unit that digitizes voltage levels of output voltages of the first amplifying unit and the second amplifying unit; a selecting unit that compares conversion results of the A/D converting unit with a threshold to select for output one of digitized values of the voltage levels of the output voltages of the first amplifying unit and the second amplifying unit; and an output correcting unit that obtains a correction value depending on a selection result of the selecting unit from a storage unit to add the correction value to the value selected by the selecting unit. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The optical transmitting apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a logarithm converting unit that converts the value selected by the selecting unit to a logarithm expression thereof based on a converting table stored in the storage unit in advance. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The optical transmitting apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the optical receiving unit uses a fixed resistor as a driving resistor. ### Claim 7 An optical detecting method for detecting and outputting an optical level of input light, the optical detecting method comprising: generating voltage depending on the optical level of the input light by using a photo-detector; amplifying the voltage generated at the generating by a first gain; amplifying the voltage generated at the generating by a second gain larger than the first gain; digitizing voltage levels of output voltages at the amplifying with the first and second gains; comparing the digitized results at the digitizing with a threshold to select for output one of the digitized values of the voltage levels of the output voltages at the amplifying with the first and second gains; and obtaining a correction value depending on the compared result at the comparing from a storage unit to add the correction value to the value selected at the comparing. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The optical detecting method according to claim 7, further comprising converting the value selected at the comparing to a logarithm expression thereof based on a converting table stored in the storage unit in advance.