Experimental characterization of integrated optical wireless components

Author

O´Brien, Dominic C. ; Faulkner, Grahame E. ; Jim, Kalok ; Edwards, David J. ; Zyambo, Emmanuel B. ; Stavrinou, Paul ; Parry, Gareth ; Bellon, Jacques ; Sibley, Martin J. ; Samsudin, Rina J. ; Holburn, David M. ; Lalithambika, Vinod A. ; Joyner, Valencia M

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Sci., Univ. of Oxford, UK

Volume

18

Issue

8

fYear

2006

fDate

4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

977

Lastpage

979

Abstract

Line of sight optical links can provide extremely high bandwidth communications between terminals, but in order to maintain alignment between transmitter and receiver, tracking is required. In this letter, we report results from a "solid-state" tracking transmitter and receiver. The transmitter consists of a custom complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuit that is flip-chip bonded to a seven-element resonant cavity light-emitting diode. The receiver uses a custom seven-element InGaAs detector array that is flip-chip bonded to a CMOS integrated circuit. Results from an initial link demonstration show overall system operation at 100 Mb/s/channel, for Manchester coded data.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; III-V semiconductors; flip-chip devices; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; light emitting diodes; optical links; optical receivers; optical transmitters; photodiodes; CMOS integrated circuit; InGaAs; InGaAs detector array; complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor; flip-chip bonding; integrated optical wireless components; optical links; receiver; resonant cavity light-emitting diode; transmitter; Bandwidth; Bonding; CMOS integrated circuits; Integrated optics; Optical devices; Optical fiber communication; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Solid state circuits; Ultraviolet sources; Integrated optoelectronics; optical communication; optoelectronic devices;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.873556

Filename

1613989