%0 Journal Article %T Reading bits on a CD-ROM without a photodiode %+ Georgia Institute of Technology [Atlanta] %+ Georgia Tech Lorraine [Metz] %A Wishon, Michael Joseph %A Locquet, A. %A Mourozeau, Guillaume %A Choi, Daeyoung %A K.R., Sreejith %A Sahai, Aakash %A Citrin, David %< avec comité de lecture %Z TERAHERTZ %@ 1751-8768 %J IET Optoelectronics %I Institution of Engineering and Technology %V 11 %N 5 %P 213-216 %8 2017-10-01 %D 2017 %R 10.1049/iet-opt.2016.0118 %K CD-ROMs %K optical beam splitters %K semiconductor lasers %Z Engineering Sciences [physics] %Z Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / PhotonicJournal articles %X The authors demonstrate that the bits of a Compact Disc – Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) can be read without aphotodiode (PD). A commercial CD-ROM drive was used and left unmodified except a beam splitter was removed which wouldroute the light to a PD. This allowed for the reflected light to be incident on the laser within the laser package itself. Bymonitoring fluctuations in the voltage across the laser diode under constant-current injection, it was possible to read andinterpret the bits from a spinning CD-ROM %G English %2 https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-03014515/document %2 https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-03014515/file/17_IET%20Optoelec_Reading%20bits%20on%20a%20CD-ROM%20without%20a%20photodiode.pdf %L hal-03014515 %U https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-03014515 %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-FCOMTE %~ CENTRALESUPELEC %~ UMI-GTL %~ UNIV-PARIS-SACLAY %~ CENTRALESUPELEC-SACLAY