Optical data link employing organic light-emitting diodes and organic photodiodes as optoelectronic components

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 816-823

  Punke, Martin ^a   Valouch, Sebastian ^a   Kettlitz, Siegfried W ^a   Gerken, Martina ^a   Lemmer, Uli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical interconnect; Organic light emitting diode (OLED); Organic photodiode; Polymer optical fiber (POF); Sony Philips digital interface format (S PDIF)

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODIODES; TRANSMITTERS;

OPTICAL DATA LINK; ORGANIC PHOTODIODE; POLYMER OPTICAL FIBER (POF);

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 42649092563     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.915206     Document Type: Article

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