• DocumentCode
    1594359
  • Title

    Ultra-low-voltage micro-ring modulator integrated with a CMOS feed-forward equalization driver

  • Author

    Rosenberg, J.C. ; Green, W.M.J. ; Rylyakov, A.V. ; Schow, C.L. ; Assefa, S. ; Lee, B.G. ; Jahnes, C. ; Vlasov, Y.A.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We present an all-CMOS micro-ring modulator packaged with a feed-forward equalization driver circuit, operating in charge-injection mode at 8 Gbps with a drive voltage of only 50 mVp-p and a power consumption of 1.8 pJ/bit.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; feedforward; low-power electronics; CMOS feedforward equalization driver; all-CMOS microring modulator; charge-injection mode; feedforward equalization driver circuit; ultra-low-voltage microring modulator; CMOS integrated circuits; Driver circuits; Modulation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical transmitters; Optimized production technology; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0213-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5875736