Patent ID: 7333733
Filing Date: 2008-02-19
Classification: H01L,H03K,H03M

Abstract:
1. An optoelectronic pulse generator comprising: a thyristor detector/emitter device having a thyristor structure formed in a resonant cavity on a substrate, an input port and an output port, the thyristor structure having four regions of changing conductivity type and an active region with at least one quantum well, the thyristor structure adapted to detect an input optical pulse supplied to said input port and to produce an output optical pulse via laser emission in response to the detected input optical pulse, said output optical pulse output via said output port; and an optical feedback path, operably coupled between said output port and said input port, that supplies at least a portion of said output optical pulse produced by said thyristor detector/emitter device to said input port, thereby causing said thyristor detector/emitter device to produce a sequence of output optical pulses.