Differential pair of optical thyristors as a general optical-interconnect device

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 585-586

  Kuijk, M ^a   Heremans, P ^b   Vounckx, R ^a   Borghs, G ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gallium arsenide; Optical interconnections; Optoelectronic devices; Thyristors

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FREQUENCIES; MOSFET DEVICES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; THYRISTORS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

OPTICAL SENSITIVITY; OPTICAL SWITCHING;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 3042942670     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960361     Document Type: Article

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