The AK2572 enables to keep the optical power of the direct
modulation LD (Laser Diode) constant by the APC
(Automatic Power Control) circuit. It consists of a current
programming function (APC_FF) responding to the
temperature characteristics of each LD, and a Digital
feedback function (APC_FB) to adjust the LD current
based on the monitoring PD (Photo Diode) current.
The AK2572 is also applicable to the Burst mode
transmission. The device equips a Power leveling function
to switch a temperature compensation programming data
by either Hardware pin control or Register setting.
The On-chip EEPROM (Non-volatile memory) allows to
adjust and to keep the individual setting data for each LD
characteristics via 2-wire Digital interface after being
assembled into sub-system. As 1k bits User Area is
allocated in the EEPROM, which supports the ID field of
the SFP specification, a proper operation required for the
SFP module is realized by using the TXFAULT function.