Patent ID: 7315669

Claim:
An optical communications system comprising: an optical waveguide; a first photoelectric transducer element array of photoelectric transducer elements optically coupled to said optical waveguide; and a second photoelectric transducer element array of photoelectric transducer elements optically coupled to said optical waveguide; wherein said first photoelectric transducer element array comprises light emitting elements, and said second photoelectric transducer element array comprises light detecting elements; and wherein said photoelectric transducer elements are mounted in alignment with entrance or exit ends of said optical waveguide, each of said photoelectric transducer elements having respective first poles, and each of said first and second photoelectric transducer element arrays having a respective second pole disposed adjacent to said first poles and the second pole being connected to at least two of the photoelectric transducer elements comprising the respective first and second transducer element arrays.