Ultralow power 80 Gb/s arrayed CMOS silicon photonic transceivers for WDM optical links

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 641-650

  Zheng, Xuezhe ^a   Liu, Frankie ^a   Lexau, Jon ^a   Patil, Dinesh ^a   Li, Guoliang ^a   Luo, Ying ^a   Thacker, Hiren D ^a   Shubin, Ivan ^a   Yao, Jin ^a   Raj, Kannan ^a   Ho, Ron ^a   Cunningham, John E ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^a  

^a ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical communications; Optical interconnections; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Silicon photonics; Transceiver array

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; 80 GB/S; CLOSE INTEGRATION; DATA RATES; GROWING DEMAND; HYBRID BONDING; HYBRID CMOS; I/O BANDWIDTH; LASER POWER; LOW-PARASITIC; OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS; RECEIVER ARRAY; SILICON CMOS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR CMOS; TRANSCEIVER ARRAY; TRANSMITTER ARRAY; ULTRA-LOW POWER; VERY-LARGE-SCALE INTEGRATION CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDE DETECTORS;

BANDWIDTH; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; GERMANIUM; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSCEIVERS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 84863012331     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2179287     Document Type: Article

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