Silicon photonic transceiver circuits with microring resonator bias-based wavelength stabilization in 65 nm CMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1419-1436

  Li, Cheng ^a   Bai, Rui ^b   Shafik, Ayman ^a   Tabasy, Ehsan Zhian ^a   Wang, Binhao ^a   Tang, Geng ^a   Ma, Chao ^b   Chen, Chin Hui ^c   Peng, Zhen ^c   Fiorentino, Marco ^c   Beausoleil, Raymond G ^c   Chiang, Patrick ^b   Palermo, Samuel ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b 1148 Kelley Engineering Center Corvallis   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrooptic modulators; optical interconnects; optical receiver; pre emphasis; ring resonator; transimpedance amplifier (TIA)

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONS; STABILIZATION; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; WIRE;

65 NM CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; PRE-EMPHASIS; RING RESONATOR; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS; WAVEGUIDE PHOTODETECTORS; WAVELENGTH STABILIZATION;

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EID: 84902085614     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2321574     Document Type: Article

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