Ultralow-Power LED-Enabled On-Chip Optical Communication Designed in the III-Nitride and Silicon CMOS Process Integrated Platform

Author

Wenjia Zhang ; Bing Wang ; Zhaomin Zhu ; Lee, Kenneth Eng Kian ; Michel, Jurgen ; Li-Shiuan Peh ; Li Zhang ; Chua Soo-Jin

Author_Institution

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Res. & Technol., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

31

Issue

5

fYear

2014

fDate

Oct. 2014

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

45

Abstract

This paper explores the integration of III-V-based LEDs and detectors in a traditional Si-CMOS process to power an on-die nanophotonic link. The work also shows that the LED-enabled on-chip optical link results in more energy-efficient communication than using an off-chip laser source to power the optical link.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; III-V semiconductors; elemental semiconductors; integrated optoelectronics; light emitting diodes; low-power electronics; nanophotonics; optical communication; optical links; photodetectors; silicon; III-V-based LEDs; LED-enabled on-chip optical link; Si; detectors; energy-efficient communication; off-chip laser source; on-die nanophotonic link; silicon CMOS process integrated platform; ultralow-power LED-enabled on-chip optical communication; Light emitting diodes; Multicore processing; Nanophotonics; Optical interconnections; Optical waveguides; Silicon; System-on-chip;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Design & Test, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2168-2356

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MDAT.2014.2346735

Filename

6876161