What's in store for silicon photoreceivers?

IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 23-31

  Espinasse, Philip B ^a   Kosier, Steven L ^a  

^a PolarFab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; IMAGE SENSORS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL SENSORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

HIGH-BANDWIDTH FIBER; SILICON PHOTODIODE; SILICON PHOTORECEIVER;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 1942485800     PISSN: 87553996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCD.2004.1276177     Document Type: Article

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