Patent 7809283 was granted and assigned to Finisar on October, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An optical transmit and receive circuit that includes a single control module that controls the transmit and receive operational behaviors in multiple transmit and receive data paths of the optical transmit and receive circuit. By having a single control module control operational behaviors of multiple electro-optic transducer drivers, and multiple post-amplifiers, the size of the overall combination may be reduced.