Chips for (fairly) narrowband FM IR

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bcarso

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Does anyone in here have knowledge of the chips typically used in the speech-quality IR wireless microphone systems? From what I can gather products achieve about 75dB S/N with diffuse IR carriers at 2.06 and 2.56 MHz; the audio modulates the carrier frequency in the usual analog FM fashion---they are not digital signals.

Years ago I worked with a system for one-way wireless audio links and I recall some Sony parts inside. The link was fairly short-range, quasi-line-of-sight and at that often a bit flakey, and used a bank of Stanley near-IR emitters which had a cutoff frequency around 30MHz---the typical IR emitters in remotes are way too slow.

The receiver was typically noise-in-background-light limited if the photodiode preamp was even half-decent. Some form of diversity-reception might have helped but I don't believe was used.
 
Are you looking primarily for the emitters or the receivers or both?

For emitters, are you looking for an LED or for a purpose built module?

For receivers, photo BJT?

Let me ask around.
 
Looking for the receiver and transmitter chips, not the IR emitters and IR photodiodes. Those I know how to do, pretty much.

I believe the previous Sony (?) FM stuff used chips intended for conventional RF, maybe just that permitted some external component changes, like a crystal or ceramic resonator and other PLL components, so the carrier was above broadcast AM band but way below broadcast FM. The product then tacked on photodiodes and preamp for the receiver, and a power driver and a bunch of fast IR emitters for the transmitter.
 
Ah, I know the ones you are talking about but I think they were discontinued. Rohm makes some FM transmitter ICs but I think they are only for standard FM radio channels. Let me dig through some datasheets.
 
[quote author="bcarso"]Does anyone in here have knowledge of the chips typically used in the speech-quality IR wireless microphone systems? [/quote]

STMicroelectronics TSH511/512
 
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