Author :
Ramaswamy, A. ; Roth, J.E. ; Norberg, E.J. ; Guzzon, R.S. ; Shin, J.H. ; Imamura, J.T. ; Koch, B.R. ; Sparacin, D.K. ; Fish, G.A. ; Lee, B.G. ; Rimolo-Donadio, R. ; Baks, C.W. ; Rylyakov, A. ; Proesel, J. ; Meghelli, M. ; Schow, C.L.
Author_Institution :
Aurrion Inc., Goleta, CA, USA
Abstract :
A four-channel WDM silicon photonic transmitter with integrated lasers and modulators driven by low-power 32nm CMOS drivers, is demonstrated to operate at a data rate of 4×28Gb/s with BER<;10-12 and power consumption of 10.0pJ/bit.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; driver circuits; elemental semiconductors; error statistics; integrated optics; lasers; optical modulation; optical transmitters; silicon; wavelength division multiplexing; BER; CMOS driver IC; Si; WDM integrated silicon photonic transmitter; bit error rate; four-channel WDM silicon photonic transmitter; integrated lasers; modulators; power consumption; size 32 nm; wavelength division multiplexing; CMOS integrated circuits; Driver circuits; Optical fiber communication; Silicon photonics; Transmitters; Wavelength division multiplexing;
