Fred R. BEYETTE, Jr., Patrick J. STANKO, Eric M. HAYES, Rick D. SNYDER, Stewart A. FELD, Pericles A. MITKAS and Carl WILMSEN

Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center and the Department of Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 USA

(Received May 9, 1996; Accepted August 20, 1996)

The architecture of an optoelectronic recirculating sorter based on the hybrid integration of CMOS logic circuitry, silicon detector/receivers and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers is presented along with the demonstration of the system.

Key words : sorting, optoelectronic smart pixels, recirculating architecture, VCSEL