High-speed, low-voltage optical receivers consisting of Ge-on-SOI photodiodes paired with CMOS ICs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6477, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Schow, Clint L ^a   Koester, Steven J ^a   Schares, Laurent ^a   Dehlinger, Gabriel ^a,b   John, Richard A ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

CMOS analog integrated circuits; Germanium; Optical receivers; Photodiodes; Silicon on insulator technology

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION LAYERS; INTEGRATED RECEIVERS; OPERATING VOLTAGE; RECEIVER ARRAYS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; GERMANIUM; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

OPTICAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 34248639573     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.701003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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