The present invention provides an optoelectronic device, a method of manufacture thereof, and an optical communication system including the same. An input voltage is sampled using one or more reference capacitor that have been charged with a net charge corresponding to a quantizer-controlled reference voltage in a preceding clock phase. When a boat attempts to force its way through the barrier, the barrier uses the momentum of the vessel against itself by using the forward momentum of the attacking vessel in such a manner as to divert, impede, stop, damage or destroy the vessel or mitigate a blast from a vessel. Subsequently, a second high refractive index material layer is deposited on top of the slab core region, and an etch mask layer is formed. If the first CSR has room to accept the write transaction, the processor returns an acknowledgement, whereas if the first CSR is already full, the processor returns a no acknowledgment.