A hybridized optical thyristor - CMOS receiver for optoelectronic applications

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 669-671

  Ayadi, Kamel ^a   Bickel, Gerhard ^b   Kuijk, Maarten ^a,c   Heremans, Paul ^b,c   Borghs, Gustaaf ^b,c   Vounckx, Roger ^a,c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c IEEE

Author keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Differential amplifier; Hybrid integrated circuits; Optical thyristors

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

HYBRIDIZED OPTICAL THYRISTORS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS;

THYRISTORS;

EID: 0031145213     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.588196     Document Type: Article

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