Patent ID: 8686813

Claim:
An electronic system, comprising: a waveguide structure having a first waveguide-coupling point and a second waveguide-coupling point; an active electronic circuit having a first circuit-coupling point and a second circuit-coupling point, wherein the second waveguide-coupling point is coupled to the first circuit-coupling point, wherein the system is capable of receiving an input signal at the first waveguide-coupling point and transmitting an output signal at the second circuit-coupling point and/or receiving the input signal at the second circuit-coupling point and transmitting the output signal at the first waveguide-coupling point, wherein the input signal and the output signal have frequencies in a terahertz frequency range, wherein the system is fabricated as a monolithic integrated structure having the waveguide structure fabricated by micromachining and the circuit fabricated monolithically, wherein the waveguide structure is batch process fabricated on a substrate as a waveguide structure layer, and wherein the active electronic circuit is batch process fabricated on another substrate as a circuit layer; and an input layer or an output layer, wherein the input or output layer is batch process fabricated on additional substrate, wherein the input or output layer is capable of coupling signals to and/or from the electronic system, and wherein the circuit layer either overlays the waveguide structure layer and the waveguide structure layer overlays the input layer or the circuit layer underlies the waveguide structure layer and the waveguide structure layer underlies the output layer.