MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits: Building on Commercial GaAs ICs
Clifton G. Fonstad, Jr.
MIT, EECS
Monday, November 27, 1995
4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
EECS Colloquium
Abstract
Modern computer, signal processing and communication systems are
straining the bounds of electrical interconnections, and this has
accelerated the search for ways of using optical signals to provide
relief. This presentation will describe the epitaxy-on-electronics
optoelectronic integration technology under development at MIT as a
way of reaching this goal. Utilizing commercially processed GaAs
electronic integrated circuits available through foundry services,
this technology has already been used to integrate light emitting
diodes with different special purpose electronic circuits to produce a
variety of optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEICs). A major effort
is now under way to expand the menu of optoelectronic heterostructure
devices available under this technology to include laser diodes,
window modulators, fiber-coupled integrated optical components and
high speed photodetectors.
This talk will begin with an overview of the history and promise of
optoelectronic integration. It will then review the current
state-of-the-art of the epitaxy-on-electronics-relevant growth, device
and integration technologies. Finally, the status of several
collaborative efforts providing epitaxy-on-electronics OEICs to the
systems research community will be discussed.
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