Fully Integrated VLSI CMOS and Photonics "CMOS Photonics"

Author

Gunn, Cary

Author_Institution

Luxtera, Inc., Carlsbad

fYear

2007

fDate

12-14 June 2007

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

9

Abstract

Luxtera has implemented complete photonic transceiver technology in the Hip7 0.13 mum SOI CMOS process at Freescale Semiconductor, enabling optical communications directly to and from a CMOS die. With the exception of the co-packaged laser, all optical functions are implemented in using CMOS processing. The devices implemented include 10 Gb/s modulators, germanium photodetectors, optical WDM filters, switches, attenuators and fiber coupling holographic lenses. To date, up to 40 Gbps transmission has been demonstrated down a single fiber using four optical wavelengths, each modulated at 10 Gbps.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; silicon-on-insulator; transceivers; Freescale Semiconductor; Luxtera; SOI CMOS process; all optical functions; attenuators; co-packaged laser; fiber coupling holographic lenses; fully integrated VLSI CMOS; germanium photodetectors; modulators; optical WDM filters; optical communications; photonic transceiver technology; size 0.13 mum; switches; CMOS process; Holographic optical components; Holography; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Photonics; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Technology, 2007 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-4-900784-03-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLSIT.2007.4339680

Filename

4339680