Realization and characterization of 8×8 resonant cavity LED arrays mounted onto CMOS drivers for POF-based interchip interconnections

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 224-235

  Bockstaele, Ronny ^a   Coosemans, Thierry ^a   Sys, Carl ^a   Vanwassenhove, Luc ^a   Van Hove, An ^a   Dhoedt, Bart ^a   Moerman, Ingrid ^a   Van Daele, Peter ^a   Baets, Roel G ^a   Annen, Richard ^d   Melchior, Hans ^d   Hall, Jon ^b   Heremans, Paul L ^c   Brunfaut, Marnik ^a   Van Campenhout, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GEC Marconi Materials Technology Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

^d Dept of Electronics and Info Syst ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

DRIVER CIRCUITS; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS (POF); RESONANT CAVITY LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (RCLED);

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 0032690789     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.778294     Document Type: Article

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