Monolithically integrated high-speed CMOS photonic transceivers

Author

Pinguet, T. ; Analui, Behnam ; Balmater, Erwin ; Guckenberger, Drew ; Harrison, Michael ; Koumans, Roger ; Kucharski, Daniel ; Liang, Yun ; Masini, G. ; Mekis, A. ; Mirsaidi, Sina ; Narasimha, Adithyaram ; Peterson, M. ; Rines, David ; Sadagopan, Vikram ;

Author_Institution

Luxtera, Inc., Carlsbad, CA, USA

fYear

2008

fDate

17-19 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

362

Lastpage

364

Abstract

We demonstrate monolithically integrated 4×10 Gb/s WDM transceivers built in a production 130 nm SOI CMOS process. Only light sources are external to the chip. 40 Gb/s error-free, bidirectional transmission is demonstrated.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; integrated optoelectronics; light sources; optical fibre communication; optical receivers; optical transmitters; silicon-on-insulator; transceivers; wavelength division multiplexing; SOI CMOS process; Si; bidirectional transmission; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; high-speed CMOS photonic transceivers; light sources; monolithically integrated WDM transceivers; CMOS integrated circuits; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber testing; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Transceivers; Wavelength division multiplexing; CMOS; modulators; silicon photonics; system-on-a-chip; waveguide photodetectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Group IV Photonics, 2008 5th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cardiff

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1769-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GROUP4.2008.4638200

Filename

4638200