A sub-400 fJ/bit thermal tuner for optical resonant ring modulators in 40 nm CMOS

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 29-32

  Amberg, Philip ^a   Chang, Eric ^a   Liu, Frankie ^a   Lexau, Jon ^a   Zheng, Xuezhe ^a   Li, Guoliang ^a   Shubin, Ivan ^a   Cunningham, John E ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^a   Ho, Ron ^a  

^a ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT TECHNIQUES; EXTERNAL TEMPERATURE; OPTICAL POWER; OPTICAL RESONANT; OPTICAL RINGS; OUTPUT POWER; RING MODULATORS; SELF-HEATING EFFECT;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 84881041149     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPEC.2012.6522615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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