Demonstration and performance of a recirculating sorter based on complementary metal oxide semiconductor logic and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Fred Richard Beyette Jr.; Patrick James Stanko; Stewart A. Feld; Carl W. Wilmsen; Kent M. Geib; Kent D. Choquette

doi:10.1117/1.601618

1 January 1998 Demonstration and performance of a recirculating sorter based on complementary metal oxide semiconductor logic and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Fred Richard Beyette Jr., Patrick James Stanko, Stewart A. Feld, Carl W. Wilmsen, Kent M. Geib, Kent D. Choquette

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 37, Issue 1, (January 1998). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601618

The demonstration of an optoelectronic sorter unit is presented. This sorter is constructed using a recirculating architecture that passes data optically between two smart-pixel arrays. Each array is implemented using a hybrid combination of CMOS logic and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs). Since implementation of this system is intended as a tool for evaluating the technological issues associated with CMOS/VCSEL smart-pixel device, the system implementation is designed to minimize interconnect complexity while focusing on the smart-pixel design and analysis. A power budget analysis indicates that the photoreceivers require a minimum of ?130?W of optical input power, which leads to a VCSEL power requirement of '415 mW. The frequency response of the photoreceivers and logic circuit reveals that the photodetector limits the operation to ?3 MHz, which is an order of magnitude slower than the logic circuits frequency limit.

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Fred Richard Beyette Jr., Patrick James Stanko, Stewart A. Feld, Carl W. Wilmsen, Kent M. Geib, and Kent D. Choquette "Demonstration and performance of a recirculating sorter based on complementary metal oxide semiconductor logic and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers," Optical Engineering 37(1), (1 January 1998). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601618

Published: 1 January 1998

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