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Analogue Optical Coupler Schematic Circuit Diagram

It is sometimes necessary to make an electrically isolated connection in a circuit. An optical is usually the key component in such a situation. In most optocouplers, a single light-emitting diode (transmitter) and a single photodiode (receiver) are optically coupled inside the package. This solution is satisfactory for transferring digital levels (such as the control signals for a thyristor) since only two logical states (LED on or LED off) have to be transferred. An exact (analog) coupling is thus not necessary.

Analogue Optical Coupler Schematic Circuit Diagram

If an analog voltage must be transferred, then it is important that the voltages at the input and the output closely track each other. To make this possible, the transmitter and receiver must employ comparable components that are incorporated into an analog circuit. The type CNR200 and CNR201 optocouplers that are available from Agilent (formerly Hewlett-Packard) contain all the essential components for such a function. There are two photodiodes and one LED in a single package, with an optical coupling between the LED and one of the photodiodes. The schematic diagram shows how the transmitter LED is optically coupled to the photodiode in the receiver.

The remaining photodiode is incorporated into the transmitter and ensures that the characteristic of the transmitter amplifier is the same as that of the receiver. Assuming a supply voltage of 5 V, analog voltages in the range of 0 to 3 V can be readily transferred. The isolation voltage between the input and output of this optocoupler is 1000 V. The value that can be achieved in practice depends on the printed circuit board layout.

A binary number can represent an analog voltage. An 8-bit number, for example, represents a decimal number from 0 to 255 (or −128 to +127 if two’s complement representation is used). An 8-bit number could therefore represent a voltage from 0 to 2.55 V, say, with a resolution of 10 mV.
Analog signals are continuous values which means they can be an infinite number of different voltages. Think of analog signals like a floating point or fractional number, they can smoothly be transiting to any in-between value like 1.8V, 1.81V, 1.801V, 1.8001V, 1.80001V, and so forth to infinity.
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