Integration of Detectors with Optical Waveguide Structures.

Abstract : Major accomplishments during this report period occurred in the areas of (1) photodetectors formed on optical waveguide surfaces; (2) high-speed complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor electronic devices for signal processing circuitry associated with these photodetectors, (3) improved techniques for laser recrystallization of silicon, (4) low loss optical waveguides, (5) theoretical analysis of low loss optical waveguides on silicon and gallium arsenide substrates, and (6) characterization of the materials used in the above devices by Raman spectroscopy with microprobe.