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For a sensing head, as the input power of the active fiber is approximately 30 mW, and the output power of the passive one is only a few hundred
nanowatt, the attenuation of the active fiber is very small.
28/40/44-Pin, high performance, enhanced flash, USB microcontrollers with
nanoWatt technology," Data Sheet.
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The microcontroller is part of Microchip's
nanoWatt Extreme Low-Power (XLP) technology family of devices and consumes only 20.7 mW and a maximum idle mode power consumption of 4.2 mW when operating at 16 MIPS [31].