Ultra-low-energy all-CMOS modulator integrated with driver

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 3059-3070

  Zheng, Xuezhe ^a   Lexau, Jon ^b   Luo, Ying ^a   Thacker, Hiren ^a   Pinguet, Thierry ^c   Mekis, Attila ^c   Li, Guoliang ^a   Shi, Jing ^a   Amberg, Philip ^b   Pinckney, Nathaniel ^b   Raj, Kannan ^a   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

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; MODULATION;

3 DB BANDWIDTH; CLOSED-LOOP; DIGITAL TRANSMITTERS; DRIVE VOLTAGE; DRIVER CIRCUIT; ENERGY-PER-BIT; FLIP CHIP; INTEGRATED MODULATORS; LOW ENERGIES; PLUG POWER; REVERSE BIAS; RING RESONANCE; SI CMOS; SILICON MODULATORS; SMALL SIGNAL; SOI CMOS; STABLE ERROR; TRANSMISSION RATES;

MODULATORS;

EID: 76249132665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003059     Document Type: Article

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