• DocumentCode
    2255469
  • Title

    20Gbps receiver based on germanium photodetector hybrid-integrated with 90nm CMOS amplifier

  • Author

    Assefa, Solomon ; Lee, Benjamin G. ; Schow, Clint L. ; Green, William M J ; Rylyakov, Alexander V. ; John, Richard A. ; Vlasov, Yurii A.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Receiver based on Ge waveguide PD hybrid-integrated with CMOS amplifier shows an unprecedented data rate of 20Gbps, -7.1dBm sensitivity, and 7pJ/bit power efficiency. Further improvement is obtained with avalanche gain and feed-forward equalization.
  • Keywords
    CMOS analogue integrated circuits; elemental semiconductors; germanium; optical interconnections; optical receivers; photodetectors; CMOS amplifier; Ge; avalanche gain; feed-forward equalization; germanium photodetector hybrid; receiver; size 90 nm; Bit error rate; CMOS integrated circuits; Optical transmitters; Optical waveguides; Photodetectors; Receivers; Sensitivity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951251