SBIR Phase I: Integrated Optoelectronic Circuits

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目提出通过一种新的集成工艺来开发集成光电子电路。这些设备将是混合电子/光学元件，嵌入一个在大小上与现有电子集成电路相当的集成平台中，并将允许微电子和光子元件的单片集成。该项目将制造一个测试“芯片”，以演示亚微米级的可控相位调制，同时考虑将多个设备集成到一个平台上，以确保高密度的集成密度。这种将集成光电子电路作为未来密集光网络的使能技术的方法，显著提高了多种应用的处理速度和计算精度，包括计算机内和计算机间通信、图像处理以及越来越密集的处理平台。这一潜力表明，集成光电子电路将在电信行业、医疗成像设备市场和计算设备市场中有应用，包括但不限于用于数字通信网络的数字信号处理器和CPU。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project proposes the development of integrated optoelectronic circuits through a novel integration process. These devices will be hybrid electronic/optical elements embedded in an integrated platform comparable in size to existing electronic integrated circuits, and will permit the monolithic integration of microelectronic and photonic elements. This project will fabricate a test 'chip' to demonstrate controllable phase modulation on the sub-micron scale while contemplating the integration of multiple devices onto a single platform to confirm dense integration densities. This approach to integrated optoelectronic circuits to act as an enabling technology for tomorrow's dense optical networks, significantly improve processing speed and computational precision for multiple applications including intra-computer and inter-computer communications, image processing, and increasingly more dense processing platforms. This potential suggests that integrated optoelectronic circuits will have applications in the telecomm industry, the medical imaging device market, and the computing equipment market including, but not limited to, Digital Signal Processors and CPUs for digital communications networks.