Si photonics technology for future optical interconnection

2011 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, ACP 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zheng, Xuezhe ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^a  

^a ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid integration; Optical interconnection; Optical receiver; Optical transmitter; Silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

10 GBPS; BUILDING BLOCKES; BULK CMOS; COMPUTING SYSTEM; HIGH DATA RATE; HIGH DENSITY; HYBRID INTEGRATION; HYBRID SILICON; INTEGRATED TRANSMITTER; OPTICAL BAND WIDTH; OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARASITICS; POWER REDUCTIONS; SI PHOTONICS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SINGLE CHANNELS; SUBSTRATE REMOVAL; SYNTHETIC WAVELENGTH; THERMAL ENGINEERING; TUNING RANGES; WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; WAVEGUIDE PHOTODETECTORS; HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES;

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXHIBITIONS; GERMANIUM; INTEGRATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; TRANSCEIVERS; TUNING; VLSI CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDES; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS; PHOTONICS; SILICON DETECTORS; TRANSMITTERS;

PHOTONICS; PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 84864076572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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