Picosecond Electronics and Optoelectronics II

Over the past five years, there has been an enormous increase in the inter­ est in and understanding of electronic and optoelectronic devices operating in the picosecond (multigigahertz) range. This has been fueled in a sig­ nificant way by the spectacular advances in picosecond laser technology, electro optic sampling, III-V devices, and wideband fiber optic systems. Partly to address these advances, a new conference jointly sponsored by the IEEE Lasers and Electrooptics Society (IEEE (LEOS)) and the Op­ tical Society of America (OSA) was founded and its first meeting held in March 1985. The purpose of this meeting was to bring together work­ ers in the areas of electronics and optoelectronics who share a common interest in the physics and technology of picosecond solid-state electronic and optoelectronic devices, their multigigahertz applications, and ultrafast measurement techniques. Emphasis was placed on the interdisciplinary as­ pects of these areas, since each area is covered by its own topical meeting. This meeting was quite successful and led to a second meeting, of which this volume forms the proceedings.

I High-Speed Probing Techniques.- A Non-contact Electro-optic Prober for High Speed Integrated Circuits.- Photoconductive Generation of Subpicosecond Electrical Pulses and Their Measurement Applications.- Picosecond Sampling of GaAs Integrated Circuits.- Electro-optic Sampling of High-Speed, InP-Based Integrated Circuits.- Electro-optic Sampling Analysis of Timing Patterns at Critical Internal Nodes in Gigabit GaAs Multiplexers/Demultiplexers.- A Technique for Wing Suppressed IR Sampling.- Picosecond Electrical Pulse for VLSI Electronics Characterization.- Ultrafast Optics Applied to Modern Device Research.- An Optically Strobed Sample and Hold Circuit.- Laser Pulsed E-Beam System for High Speed I.C. Testing.- Photoemissive Testing of High-Speed Electrical Waveforms.- High-Speed Optical Logic Using GaAs.- Comparison of Sampling Oscilloscopes with ?35 ps Transition Durations.- Picosecond Optoelectronic Study of a Thin Film Transmission Line Structure.- II Transient Transport.- Direct Subpicosecond Measurement of Carrier Mobility of Photoexcited Electrons in GaAs.- Nonstationary Transport in MODFETs and Heterojunction Devices.- Monte Carlo Investigation of Hot Photoexcited Electron Relaxation in GaAs.- Longitudinally Localized Optical Carrier Injection for Femtosecond Transport Studies.- Femtosecond Nonequilibrium Electronic Heat Transport in Thin Gold Films.- III Ballistic Transport and Resonant Tunneling.- Ballistic Transport and Energy Spectroscopy of Hot Electrons in THETA Devices.- Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Resonant Tunneling Diodes.- Quantum Transport Calculation of Resonant-Tunneling Response Time(.- Resonant Tunneling Electron Spectroscopy.- Analysis of Transit Time Effects due to Spacer Layers in Quantum Well Oscillators.- IV Quantum Wells.- High-Speed Phenomena in GaAs Multiple-Quantum-Well Structures.- Picosecond Carrier Transport in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Quantum-Confined Stark Effect in InGaAs/InP Quantum Wells Grown by Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition.- Dynamics of Below-Gap Photoexcitation in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Optical Reading of InGaAs Modulation Doped Field Effect Transistor.- V High-Speed Electronic Devices.- Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) for High-Speed Devices.- Multigigahertz Logic Based on InP MISFETs Exhibiting Extremely High Transconductance.- Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits.- Enhanced Performance Ultrabroadband Distributed Amplifiers.- High-Performance Quarter-Micron-Gate MODFET.- Progress and Challenges in HEMT LSI Technology.- Picosecond Switching in Josephson Tunnel Junctions.- Modulation Efficiency Limited High Frequency Performance of the MODFET.- Development of 18 GHz GaAs Static Frequency Dividers and Their Evaluation by Electrooptic Sampling.- Characteristics of Shielded Microstrip Lines on GaAs-Si at Millimeter-Wave Frequencies.- VI Fast Lasers and Detectors.- Characteristics, Packaging and Physics of Ultra High Speed Diode Lasers and Detectors.- Energy Variations in Optical Pulses from Gain-Switched AlGaAs Diode Lasers.- Frequency Chirping in Pulse Modulated Gain and Index Guided Single Quantum Well Lasers.- InP/GaInAs/InP PIN Photodiode with FWHM of Photoconductive Picosecond Microstripline Switches on Self-Implanted Silicon on Sapphire (SOS).- Picosecond Optoelectronic Switches Using Composite Electronic Materials.- High Speed, High Repetition Rate, High Voltage Photoconductive Switching.- Generation and Forming of Ultrashort High Voltage Pulses.- Silicon Pulse Sharpening Diodes ― Switching Kilovolts in Tens of Picoseconds.- Graphite as a Picosecond Laser Activated Opening Switch.- VIII Optical Microwave Techniques.- Radar and Electronic Warfare Applications of Multigigahertz Optical Components and Systems.- Characteristics and Applications of Wideband Guided-Wave Devices.- A New Optoelectronic CW Microwave Source.- Optical Intensity Modulation to 40 GHz Using a Waveguide Electrooptic Switch.- Picosecond Response of an Optically Controlled Millimeter Wave Phase Shifter.- Picosecond Optoelectronic Transceivers.- High Speed Opto-isolator for Radar Applications.- Index of Contributors.