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What is Optoelectronics?
Many people tried to define what are the contents of optoelectronics,
electro-optics, photonics and various other terms.
What is Optoelectronics?
(from Wikipedia 2008)
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4 CD-R Disc 55,095 TFT-LCD
DVD-ReWritable
5 47,376 24%
Drive
7 (LED) 39,700
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14%
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30,000 27,381
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20,000 15,719
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3% 3,344 5%
5,000 83 225 425 1,154
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1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008
Si , Ge , VLSI IC
LED Applications
(1962)
Ith
DVD Disks
SONY 3-wavelength LD
Waveguides
Medical-Endoscope ()
http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/mesg/endoscope
/Surgery/O_Gynecology/hyf_xp.html
http://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/zapsurgery/00_endoscope
2.asp?ComponentID=8
Waveguides
2007
OPTOELECTRONICS 30 Prof. Wei-I Lee
Introduction
http://web.mit.edu/fonstad/optochip/opto.home.html
Introduction