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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Optical Interconnect
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Date: 13 Apr 91 19:54:14 GMT
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Pardon me if I missed somebody else mentioning it, but Forrest Mims
published an article on optoelectronics in Popular Electronics back
about 20 years ago, in which he described an ingenious method of cheaply
attaching optic fibers to chips.  He takes an LED and drives a soldering
iron straight through the lens till he just touches the chip.  Then he
puts a drop of glue in the hole and pushes in the optic fiber.  He notes
that LED's have a lot of photosensitivity, and can be used as both
transmitters and receivers.