Help!!! AC-coupling for Laser Driver

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Rattapoom Tidprom

Joined Jul 14, 2015
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I'm starting to understand laser driver (especially Maxim laser driver). I'm having a hard time to understand why we have IL = IBIAS + IMOD/2 when optical high output and IL=IBIAS-IMOD/2 when optical low output. (IBIAS and IMOD are constant current sources). I've also attached the article that you can find the basic details about interfacing with Maxim laser driver.

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The bottom, right drawing seems to illustrate why AC coupling causes a +/- effect with the modulating signal. I think you merely overlooked the idea of AC coupling making the modulating signal cause both greater and lesser excursions of the bias current across time.
 

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