A 24-channel, 300 Gb/s, 8.2 pJ/bit, full-duplex fiber-coupled optical transceiver module based on a single "holey" CMOS IC

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 542-553

  Schow, Clint L ^a   Doany, Fuad E ^a   Rylyakov, Alexander V ^a   Lee, Benjamin G ^a   Jahnes, Christopher V ^a   Kwark, Young H ^a   Baks, Christian W ^a   Kuchta, Daniel M ^a   Kash, Jeffrey A ^a  

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

Author keywords

CMOS analog integrated circuits; crosstalk; driver circuits; optical communication; optical receivers; optoelectronic devices; photodetectors; photodiodes; semiconductor laser arrays; semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

2D-ARRAYS; ACTIVE DEVICES; BI-DIRECTIONAL; CLOSE INTEGRATION; CMOS ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS IC; CMOS TRANSCEIVERS; DIRECT COUPLING; DRIVE ELECTRONICS; DRIVER CIRCUITS; FLIP CHIP; FOUR-CHANNEL; FULL-DUPLEX; HIGH-DENSITY; HIGH-SPEED; HIGH-SPEED PERFORMANCE; LASER DIODE DRIVERS; NOVEL COMPONENT; OPTICAL I/O; OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER MODULES; OPTOCHIPS; ORGANIC CARRIERS; PACKING DENSITY; PHOTODIODE ARRAYS; PLUGGABLE CONNECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ARRAYS; SINGLE-CHIP TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSCEIVER MODULES;

ACOUSTIC RECEIVERS; ANALOG CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CROSSTALK; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FLIP CHIP DEVICES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LASERS; LENSES; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRANSCEIVERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79951532894     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2101580     Document Type: Article

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