25Gb/s 3.6pJ/b and 15Gb/s 1.37pJ/b VCSEL-based optical links in 90nm CMOS

Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 418-419

  Proesel, Jonathan ^a   Schow, Clint ^a   Rylyakov, Alexander ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; 90NM CMOS; DATA RATES; FIBER-OPTICAL; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; LINK EFFICIENCY; MULTIMODES; POWER EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; EFFICIENCY;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 84860660403     PISSN: 01936530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2012.6177072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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