Patent ID: 11936426
Assignee: WYSS CENTER FOR BIO AND NEURO ENGINEERING
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  A | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A transcutaneous optical communication system comprising:
an implantable optical transmitter device including:
one or more drivers, plural light emitting sources, and an optical element;
each of the one or more drivers configured to convert a digital data signal into one or more modulation signals to drive one or more of the light emitting sources;
each light emitting source configured to generate a light beam in response to a corresponding one of the one or more modulation signals, each light beam contributing to form a single optical signal; and
the optical element configured to direct the light beams to exit the implantable optical transmitter device distributed in a pattern in which a peak position of light intensity of each light beam is separated from a corresponding peak position of light intensity of an adjacent light beam by at least a first distance and less than a second distance, wherein the implantable optical transmitter device is configured to be embedded within biological tissue and the first distance and the second distance are based on characteristics of the biological tissue; and

an external optical receiver device-configured to detect light generated by the plural light emitting sources.