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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1995),
  • paper CTuD7

Downscaling and limits of the optical sensitivity of thyristor-based optoelectronic switches

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Abstract

The optical thyristor is a combined receiver/emitter optoelectronic switch that is well suited for low-power, high-speed parallel optical interconnects.1 By receiving light it can be triggered from its off state to its on state, and it emits light in the on state. This permits cascadable operation by using the same type of optical thyristor for both the emitting side and the receiving side. The input light sensitivity is strongly enhance if a differential pair (i.e., two thyristors in parallel having a common series resistance) is used instead of a single thyristor.2

© 1995 Optical Society of America

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