A single-fiber bidirectional optical link using colocated emitters and detectors

This letter reports the bonding of a small, thin-film GaAs-based emitter onto a larger silicon detector to realize spatial colocation of the emitter and detector. These colocated devices enable single fiber bidirectional communication between the two analog/digital silicon circuits that contain the...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE photonics technology letters 1996-10, Vol.8 (10), p.1385-1387
Main Authors: Cross, J., Lopez-Lagunas, A., Buchanan, B., Carastro, L., Shih-Cheng Wang, Jokerst, N.H., Wills, S., Brooke, M., Ingram, M.A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bidirectional control
Bonding
Detectors
Optical fiber communication
Optical fiber devices
Optical fibers
Plastics
Semiconductor thin films
Silicon
Thin film circuits
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This letter reports the bonding of a small, thin-film GaAs-based emitter onto a larger silicon detector to realize spatial colocation of the emitter and detector. These colocated devices enable single fiber bidirectional communication between the two analog/digital silicon circuits that contain the emitter/detector pairs. Bidirectional communication between two of these circuits is demonstrated with a single plastic optical fiber.
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/68.536663