Patent ID: 7623793

Claim:
A system for configuring fiber optic communication channels between arrays of emitters and detectors, said system comprising: an array of light emitters; an array of light detectors; a bundle of optical fibers disposed between said arrays of light emitters and light detectors for conducting light from said light emitters to said light detectors, wherein the number of optical fibers in said bundle is greater than the number of light emitters in said array and wherein an area cross-section of the bundle of optical fibers overlaps the array of light emitters and the array of light detectors; and logic for mapping at least one emitter to at least one detector to establish at least one fiber optic communication channel between the array of light emitters and the array of light detectors; wherein the logic for mapping comprising: logic for identifying which detector of a plurality of mapped and unmapped detectors meets a light value satisfying criteria for the at least one emitter to be mapped; logic for determining if the detector meeting the light value satisfying criteria has already been mapped to another emitter; and logic for disabling the at least one emitter to be mapped if the detector meeting the light value satisfying criteria has already been mapped to another emitter.