A sub-picojoule-per-bit CMOS photonic receiver for densely integrated systems

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 204-211

  Zheng, Xuezhe ^a   Liu, Frankie ^b   Patil, Dinesh ^b   Thacker, Hiren ^a   Luo, Ying ^a   Pinguet, Thierry ^c   Mekis, Attila ^c   Yao, Jin ^a   Li, Guoliang ^a   Shi, Jing ^a   Raj, Kannan ^a   Lexau, Jon ^b   Alon, Elad ^b   Ho, Ron ^b   Cunningham, John E ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^b Sun Labs   (United States)

^c CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

3 DB BANDWIDTH; DIGITAL RECEIVERS; ENERGY-PER-BIT; HYBRID CMOS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; PHOTONIC RECEIVER; PLUG POWER; RECEIVER CIRCUITS; REVERSE BIAS; SI CMOS; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SMALL SIGNAL; SOI CMOS; TRANSMISSION RATES; ULTRA-LOW POWER; WAVEGUIDE DETECTORS;

DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 73549090124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000204     Document Type: Article

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