A monolithic 25-Gb/s transceiver with photonic ring modulators and ge detectors in a 130-nm CMOS SOI process

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1309-1322

  Buckwalter, James F ^a   Zheng, Xuezhe ^b   Li, Guoliang ^b   Raj, Kannan ^b   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical transceiver; photonic ring modulator; pre emphasis; silicon photonic integrated circuits

Indexed keywords

DATA RATES; EXTINCTION RATIOS; GE DETECTORS; LASER POWER; LINK EFFICIENCY; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; PHOTONIC MICRORING RESONATORS; PRE-EMPHASIS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR PROCESS; TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTION; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER;

OPTICAL TRANSCEIVERS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; TRANSCEIVERS;

MODULATORS;

EID: 84861760139     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2012.2189835     Document Type: Article

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