TRANSDUCER FOR CONVERTING DIGITAL AV CONTENT TO OPTICAL COMPATIBLE SIGNALS AND ASSOCIATED OPERATING METHOD

摘要

An optical appliance (100) that is capable of processing optical media can be used to modulate a laser. In some systems, the optical appliance includes an optoelectronic transducer (102), a compact disk (CD) or digital versatile disk (DVD) controller and front end. A modulated laser can be used as an optical network with a terminal node in the form of a conventional optical detector such as a compact disk (CD) or digital versatile disk (DVD) pickup. A CD or DVD controller and front end can be used to modulate the laser. Accordingly, the controller and front end can modulate the laser to emulate reading of an optical disk medium.