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Introduction. Outline. Short range optical interconnection. Why optical interconnection? Characteristics of light. Optical fiber types. High intensity light sources. Photodetectors  introduction. High-speed optical receivers in CMOS for [small lambda] = 850 nm-literature overview. CMOS photodiodes for [small lambda] = 850 nm. Introduction. Bandwidth of photodiodes in CMOS. Intrinsic (physical) photodiode bandwidth. Extrinsic (electrical) photodiode bandwidth. Noise in photodiodes. Summary and conclusions. High data-rates with CMOS photodiodes. Introduction. Transimpedance amplifier design. Photodiode selection. Equalizer design. Robustness on spread and temperature. Experimental results. Conclusions. Bulk CMOS photodiodes for [small lambda]= 400 nm. Introduction. Finger nwell/p-substrate diode in adjoined-well technology. Finger n+/nwell/p-substrate diode. Finger n+/p-substrate photodiode in separate-well technology. Finger p+/nwell/p-substrate in adjoined-well technology. p+/nwell photodiode. Conclusion. Polysilicon photodiode. High-speed lateral polydiode. Noise in polysilicon photodiodes. Time domain measurements. Quantum efficiency and sensitivity. Conclusion. CMOS photodiodes: generalized. Introduction. Generalization of CMOS photodiodes. Device layer - photocurrent amplitude. Analog equalization. Summary and Conclusions. Conclusions. Conclusions.