2 Beam Optical Pulse Generator

[mackrackit]

I like this for a couple of reasons.

Most of the logic is done outside of the PIC. The latching of one till the other is triggered and re-setting when the second is triggered seems like some code load would be taken from the PIC.

A one PIC pin solution. Often we find that more I/Os are needed, leading to multiple PICs or larger PICs just for a pin or two. Off the top I would probably use two PIC pins if I were doing this PIC only.

Many ways to do anything. This project is a good reminder that a MCU is not always needed or can be complimented with external circuitry.

Now if I could just remember how to make LEDs blink without a MCU

[WOZZY-2010]

I posted the Code and PIC schematic part of this project in Code Examples Here:
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=12634

-- Bob

[marvelaugusts]

Is this true, An optical top hat pulse generator controlled by solitons. The top hat generator comprises a non-linear optical loop mirror (NOLM) that is fed by a continuous wave (CW) optical signal and is controlled by incoming optical pulses comprising first order solitons. The soliton regime for the incoming optical pulses is obtained by choosing a fiber with the correct dispersion and by adjusting the peak power of the control pulses.

[WOZZY-2010]

Nah... It's actually much simpler than that?!