ABSTRACT
With the advancements in epitaxial growth techniques such as MOCVD, optoelectronics has been attracting increasing attention in a wide area of applications such as communication systems, optical discs and computers. Most of the optoelectronics research has been focused on improving the speed and reliability of optical communication. Optical fibre communication systems with bit rates in multigigabits s-1 have been demonstrated and a significant amount of research is in progress to achieve faster, more reliable and lower-cost optical communication. Recently, optoelectronic integration has also received attention in building the optical interconnects in computing systems as will be discussed later.
