Light-emitting diodes with 17% external quantum efficiency at 622 Mb/s for high-bandwidth parallel short-distance optical interconnects

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 166-171

  Windisch, Reiner H ^a   Knobloch, Alexander ^a   Potemans, Jan ^a   Dutta, Barundeb ^a   Döhler, Gottfried H ^b   Borghs, Gustaaf ^a   Heremans, Paul L ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; THIN FILM DEVICES;

NONRESONANT CAVITY LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (NRC-LED);

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 0032633397     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.778275     Document Type: Article

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