A CMOS optical microspectrometer with light-to-frequency converter, bus interface, and stray-light compensation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1530-1537

  Correia, Jose Higino ^a,b   De Graaf, Ger ^a,b   Bartek, Marian ^a,b   Wolffenbuttel, Reinoud F ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fabry perot etalon; Internal external bus interface; Light to frequency converter; On chip optical microspectrometer; Visible light

Indexed keywords

BUS INTERFACE; LIGHT TO FREQUENCY CONVERTER; MULTICHIP INTERFACING; OPTICAL MICROSPECTROMETER; SERIAL BUS INTERFACE; STRAY LIGHT COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES;

ARRAYS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ETALONS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FREQUENCY CONVERTER CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; READOUT SYSTEMS;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0035719357     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.982940     Document Type: Article

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