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

Author

Cross, Jeffrey ; Lopez-Lagunas, Abelardo ; Buchanan, Brent ; Carastro, Lawrence ; Wang, Shih-Cheng ; Jokerst, N.H. ; Wills, Scott ; Brooke, Martin ; Ingram, Mary Ann

Author_Institution

Microelectron. Res. Center, Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

8

Issue

10

fYear

1996

Firstpage

1385

Lastpage

1387

Abstract

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.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; gallium arsenide; integrated circuit interconnections; integrated optoelectronics; light emitting diodes; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; photodetectors; thin film circuits; GaAs; Si; analog/digital silicon circuits; bidirectional communication; colocated devices; colocated emitters; detectors; emitter/detector pairs; larger silicon detector; single fiber bidirectional communication; single plastic optical fiber; single-fiber bidirectional optical link; spatial colocation; thin-film GaAs-based emitter; Bidirectional control; Bonding; Detectors; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Plastics; Semiconductor thin films; Silicon; Thin film circuits;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.536663

Filename

536663