ABSTRACT
Optoelectronic technologies [1] encompass a wide variety of devices and structures used to generate, manipulate, detect and direct light signals. This interdisciplinary field, born at the intersection of microelectronics and optics, is poised to provide the primary building blocks of the communications and computing infrastructure of the 21st century. The development of high-bandwidth optical networks using wave division multiplexing [2], for example, requires a wide variety of components for network construction. The optical communications and optical networking revolution is being fought with fibre, optical routers, modulators and detectors. The development of these basic optoelectronic components will be key in determining the progression of communication technologies for years to come.
