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In an electrical circuit, an optocoupler ensures total electric isolation, including potential isolation, as in the case of a transformer. In practice, this means that the control circuit is located on one side of the optocoupler, i.e., the emitter side, while the load circuit is located on the other side, i.e., the detector side. Both circuits are electrically isolated by the optocoupler.
Signals from the control circuit are transmitted optically to the load circuit. In most cases, this optical transmission is realized with light beams whose wavelengths span the red to infrared range, depending on the requirements applicable to the optocoupler. The bandwidth of the signal to be transmitted ranges from a dc voltage signal to frequencies in the MHz band. An optocoupler is comparable to a transformer or relay. Besides having smaller dimensions in most cases, the advantages of optocouplers are shorter switching times, no contact bounce, no interference caused by arcs, and no wear to the circuitry.Optocouplers are suitable for circuits used in microelectronics, data processing, and telecommunication systems.
Optocouplers are used to an increasing extent as safety tested components, e.g., in switch mode power supplies.
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