Special Issue on Optical Interconnection
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 . FOREWORD .......................................................... 1
        Takeshi KAMIYA

INVITED PAPERS
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 . Optical Interconnections in Switching System ...................... 2
        Ken-ichi YUKIMATSU and Yoshihiro SHIMAZU

 . Parallel Photonic Devices and Concepts Good for Optical
   Interconnects ..................................................... 9
        Kenichi IGA

 . Interconnection Architecture Based on Beam-Steering Devices ...... 15
        Hideo ITOH, Seiji MUKAI and Hiroyoshi YAJIMA

PAPERS
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 . Four-Channel Receiver Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit Arrays for
   Interconnections ................................................. 23
        Hideki HAYASHI, Goro SASAKI, Hiroshi YANO, Naoki NISHIYAMA and
        Michio MURATA

 . Pure Optical Parallel Array Logic System --An Optical Parallel
   Computing Architecture--  ........................................ 30
        Tsuyoshi KONISHI, Jun TANIDA and Yoshiki ICHIOKA

 . Optical Parallel Interconnection Based on Group Multiplexing and
   Coding Technique ................................................. 35
        Tetsuo HORIMATSU, Nobuhiro FUJIMOTO, Kiyohide WAKAO and
        Mitsuhiro YANO

 . Crosstalk Characteristic of Monolithically Integrated Receiver
   Arrays ........................................................... 42
        Yuji AKAHORI, Mutsuo IKEDA, Atsuo KOHZEN and Yoshio ITAYA

 . Bending Loss Characteristics of MQW Optical Waveguides ........... 50
        Takuya AIZAWA, K.G.RAVIKUMAR, Masaaki AKIYAMA, Tsutomu
        WATANABE, Toshisada SEKIGUCHI, Masahiro AGATA and Ryozo
        YAMAUCHI

 . Optical Associative Memory Using Optoelectronic Neurochips for Image
   Processing ....................................................... 56
        Masaya OITA, Yoshikazu NITTA, Shuichi TAI and Kazuo KYUMA

Regular Section
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PAPERS
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[Semiconductor Materials and Devices]

 . Electrical Properties of Si Metal Insulator Semiconductor Tunnel
   Emitter Transistor (Si MIS TET) .................................. 63
        Tomomi YOSHIMOTO

[Opto-Electronics]

 . Optical Intersecting Waveguide Switches with Curved Electrodes ... 69
        Jamshid NAYYER, Hamid HATAMI-HANZA and Safieddin SAFAVI-NAEINI

LETTERS
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[Semiconductor Materials and Devices]

 . Analysis of Narrow Emitter Effects in Half-Micron Bipolar
   Transistors ...................................................... 77
        Youichiro NIITSU, Hiroyuki MIYAKAWA and Osamu HIDAKA

 . ABSTRACTS (Trans. IEICE, Vol.J77-C-I, J77-C-II, No.1 in Japanese)  81
 . IEICE TECHNICAL REPORTS/CONTENTS ................................. 85