Devices

摘要

This section of the TOPS Volume focuses on recent advances in ultrahigh speed device technology. This area spans technologies ranging from novel, high speed vertical cavity surface emitting semiconductor lasers to ultrafast photodetectors and devices for generating ultrashort electrical pulses. The importance of these devices is that they will serve as key components in ultrahigh speed measurement, test and diagnostic equipment as well as play vital roles in computing, communications and signal processing applications.