Monolithic integration of nitride light emitting diodes and photodetectors for bi-directional optical communication
- 25 September 2014
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 39 (19), 5657-5660
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.39.005657
Abstract
Design and fabrication of monolithically integrated III-nitride visible light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) and ultraviolet Schottky barrier-photodetectors (SB-PDs) have been proposed and demonstrated. Responsivity up to at 365 nm for GaN SB-PDs has been achieved. It is shown that those UV SB-PDs were capable of sensitive UV light detection down to at 365 nm, whereas simultaneous operation of on-chip blue LEDs has produced negligible crosstalk at practical illumination brightness. Monolithically integrated LEDs and SB-PDs can function as transmitters to emit visible light signals, and as receivers to analyze incoming UV signals, respectively; this offers the potential of using such devices for bi-directional optical wireless communication applications.
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Funding Information
- National Science Foundation (NSF) (ECCS0824186, ECCS0846018)
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