Title :
A 64 Gb/s PAM-4 linear optical receiver
Author :
Moeneclaey, Bart ; Kanakis, Giannis ; Verbrugghe, Jochen ; Iliadis, Nikos ; Soenen, Wouter ; Kalavrouziotis, Dimitrios ; Spatharakis, Christos ; Dris, Stefanos ; Xin Yin ; Bakopoulos, Paraskevas ; Mentovich, Elad ; Avramopoulos, Hercules ; Bauwelinck, Joh
Author_Institution :
INTEC/IMEC, Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium
Abstract :
We present a linear optical receiver realized on 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS. Error-free operation assuming FEC is shown at bitrates up to 64 Gb/s (32 Gbaud) with 165mW power consumption, corresponding to 2.578 pJ/bit.
Keywords :
BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; forward error correction; optical receivers; pulse amplitude modulation; FEC; PAM; SiGe; SiGe BiCMOS; bit rate 64 Gbit/s; error-free operation; linear optical receiver; power 165 mW; size 130 nm; CMOS integrated circuits; EPON; IEEE 802.3 Standards; Integrated optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical coupling; Optical switches;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
