Parallel optoelectronic data transcription with fan-out between planes of PnpN optical thyristors

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 464-466

  Kirk, A G ^b   Thienpont, H ^a,b   Goulet, A ^b   Heremans, P ^a,c   Borghs, G ^c   Vounckx, R ^b   Kuijk, M ^a,b   Veretennicoff, I ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LENSES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SYNCHRONIZATION; THYRISTORS;

GRADIENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL DATA TRANSCRIPTION; OPTICAL THYRISTORS; SWITCHING ENERGY; THYRISTOR ARRAYS;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 0030104747     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.481151     Document Type: Article

References (5)

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5. H. Thienpont, A. Kirk, I. Veretennicoff, P. Heremans, B. Knupfer, G. Borghs, M. Kuijk, and R. Vounckx, "Optical thyristor based subsystems for digital parallel processing: Demonstrators and future perspectives," in Proc. 2nd IEEE Conf. Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnect., 1995, pp. 228-238.