CMOS-integrated optical receivers for on-chip interconnects

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1376-1385

  Assefa, Solomon ^a   Xia, Fengnian ^a   Green, William M J ^a   Schow, Clint L ^a   Rylyakov, Alexander V ^a   Vlasov, Yurii A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Integrated optoelectronics; monolithic integration; on chip interconnects; optical communications; optical receivers; photodetectors (PDs); waveguide integrated PDs

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BANDWIDTH; GE FILMS; INTEGRATED OPTICAL RECEIVERS; INTEGRATION APPROACH; LOW POWER RECEIVER; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; METAL CONTACTS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; ON-CHIP INTERCONNECTS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; RECENT PROGRESS; STANDARD CMOS PROCESS; TERABIT;

ACOUSTIC RECEIVERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DESIGN; GERMANIUM; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 77957849934     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2048306     Document Type: Article

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