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Enabling 2 μm communications

Nature Photonics volume 9, pages 358–359 (2015)Cite this article

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High-speed 2 μm digital optical receivers are brought closer to reality by an extended-response foundry-made monolithic silicon-on-insulator avalanche photodiode.

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Figure 1: Ultrafast digital optical cable operating in the ∼2 μm wavelength band.

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  1. Richard Soref is at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Engineering Program, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA,

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