A 155 Mbps digital transmitter using GaAs thin film LEDs bonded to silicon driver circuits

Author

Lopez Laguna, A. ; Vendier, Olivier ; Wilkinson, S.T. ; Bond, S.W. ; Lee, Minhung ; Zhuang Hou

Author_Institution

Coll. of Electr. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

5-9 Aug. 1996

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

16

Abstract

A low cost, low power digital silicon transmitter integrated with a GaAs-based surface LED has been fabricated and characterized. Operation at 155 Mbps has been demonstrated with a digital input, resulting in a transmitter which is integrable with digital Si CMOS circuitry, and is suitable for short haul optical communication.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; III-V semiconductors; digital communication; driver circuits; elemental semiconductors; gallium arsenide; integrated optoelectronics; light emitting diodes; optical transmitters; silicon; 155 Mbit/s; GaAs; GaAs thin film surface LED; Si; digital transmitter; optical communication; silicon CMOS driver circuit; Bonding; CMOS digital integrated circuits; Costs; Gallium arsenide; Light emitting diodes; Optical fiber communication; Optical transmitters; Silicon; Thin film circuits; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Applications of Lasers in Materials Processing/Broadband Optical Networks/Smart Pixels/Optical MEMs and Their Applications. IEEE/LEOS 1996 Summer Topical Meetings:

Conference_Location

Keystone, CO, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3175-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.1996.540724

Filename

540724