Linear Optocouplers features an infrared LED optically coupled with two photodiodes. One input-side feedback photodiode is used to generate a control signal that provides a servomechanism to the LED drive current, thus compensating for the LED's nonlinear time and temperature. This application note presents isolation amplifier circuit designs useful in industrial test and measurement systems, instrumentation, and communication systems. It can be used to isolate analog. An optocoupler, also known as photocoupler or opto-isolator, is a device which can transfer an electrical signal across two galvanically-isolated circuits by way of optical coupling. Unlike transformers or capacitors, which can only transfer AC signals across the isolation barrier, optocouplers can. This has been traditionally accomplished by means of transformers and optocou-plers with transformers being used to couple AC signals and optocouplers used primarily for DC signal cou-pling. Opto-isolators prevent high voltages from affecting the system receiving the signal.
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