• DocumentCode
    733982
  • Title

    Scaling zero-change photonics: An active photonics platform in a 32nm microelectronics SOI CMOS process

  • Author

    Wade, Mark T. ; Pavanello, Fabio ; Orcutt, Jason ; Kumar, Rajesh ; Shainline, Jeffrey M. ; Stojanovic, Vladimir ; Ram, Rajeev ; Popovic, Milos A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr., Comput., & Energy Eng., Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate photonics monolithically integrated in a 32 nm SOI microelectronics process, including grating couplers, tunable filters, and modulators, the first migration of zero-change CMOS photonics moving down the microelectronics technology-node ladder, from the 45nm node.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; diffraction gratings; integrated optoelectronics; optical couplers; optical filters; optical modulation; optical tuning; silicon-on-insulator; active photonics platform; grating couplers; microelectronics SOI CMOS process; microelectronics technology-node ladder; modulators; monolithically integrated photonics; size 32 nm; size 45 nm; tunable filters; zero-change photonics scaling; Gratings; Microelectronics; Modulation; Optical device fabrication; Optical filters; Optical waveguides; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7184426