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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 12, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Maarten Kuijk, Antwerp, BE;
Paul Heremans, Leuven, BE;
Roger Vounckx, Schaarbeek, BE;
Gustaaf Borghs, Kessel-Lo, BE;
Assignee:
Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum vzw, Leuven, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359152 ; 359163 ; 257 83 ;
Abstract
A differential pair of optoelectronic pnpn devices provided with probing impedances allows such pair to operate as an optical to optical, optical to electrical and electrical to optical transceiver. This basic transceiver is useful in situations where information transport is needed between two or more locations, e.g., optical interconnects in electronic computing systems. The transceiver can be repeated in arrays in connection with Si-VLSI circuitry for high bandwidth optical interconnect applications.