Patent ID: 6865343

Claim:
An apparatus for modeling a transmission behavior of opto-electronic connections in which an electro-optical transmitter having an electrical terminal is connected via an optical conductor to an opto-electrical receiver, comprising: a transmitter sub-model that models said electro-optical transmitter, comprising an input post representing said electrical terminal, and at least n output posts, where n≧ 2 , representing optical outputs and emission behavior of said electro-optical transmitter; a receiver sub-model that models said opto-electrical receiver, having m input posts, where m≦ 2 , representing optical inputs and reception characteristics of said opto-electrical receiver; an optical conductor sub-model that models said optical conductor, and which connects said transmitter sub-model to said receiver sub-model, said optical conductor sub-model comprising n posts at an input to which said n output posts of said transmitter sub-model are connected, and said optical conductor sub-model further comprising m posts at an output to which said m input posts of said receiver sub-model are connected; a component selected from the group consisting of an emission component and a reception component defined by a spatial distribution of optical signals.