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Ultrafast photoconductor detector-laser-diode transmitter

Description

We report the results of an experiment in which we used an ultrafast, photoconductive, radiation detector to drive a fast laser-diode transmitter. When we irradiated the neutron-damaged Cr-doped GaAs detector with 17-MeV electron beams, the temporal response was measured to be less than 30 ps. The pulses from this detector modulated a fast GaAlAs laser diode to transmit the laser output through 30- and 1100-m optical fibers. Preliminary results indicate that 50- and 80-ps time resolutions, respectively, are obtainable with these fibers. We are now working to integrate the photoconductive detector and the laser diode transmitter into a single chip

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Available from NTIS, PC A02; 3 as DE87013803.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
4 p.
Report number
UCRL--96005

Conference

Title
31. SPIE annual international technical symposium on optical and optoelectronic applied science and engineering.
Dates
16-21 Aug 1987.
Place
San Diego, CA (USA).

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Notes
Paper copy only, copy does not permit microfiche production.
Secondary number(s)
CONF-8708110--15.