High-efficiency optical emission, detection, and coupling using silicon diodes
- 15 September 2002
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 92 (6) , 2977-2979
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1503168
Abstract
This article reports band-edge light emission and detection using silicon diodes. A bulk crystalline silicon light-emitting diode (LED) demonstrating close to 1% power efficiency at room temperature is combined with a similar diode used as a detector, that collects the light emitted with a high quantum collection efficiency of 33%, to produce a silicon-to-silicon optically coupled system that demonstrates 0.18% coupling quantum efficiency. The silicon LED demonstrates similarly high performance at very low power levels, where it has higher power efficiency than a high efficiency GaAlAs LED.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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