Scaling CMOS photonics transceivers beyond 100 Gb/s

Attila Mekis; Sherif Abdalla; Peter M. De Dobbelaere; Dennis Foltz; Steffen Gloeckner; Steven Hovey; Steven Jackson; Yi Liang; Michael Mack; Gianlorenzo Masini; Rafaela Novais; Mark Peterson; Thierry Pinguet; Subal Sahni; Jeff Schramm; Michael Sharp; Daniel Song; Brian P. Welch; Kosei Yokoyama; Shuhuan Yu

doi:10.1117/12.911581

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2 February 2012 Scaling CMOS photonics transceivers beyond 100 Gb/s

Attila Mekis, Sherif Abdalla, Peter M. De Dobbelaere, Dennis Foltz, Steffen Gloeckner, Steven Hovey, Steven Jackson, Yi Liang, Michael Mack, Gianlorenzo Masini, Rafaela Novais, Mark Peterson, Thierry Pinguet, Subal Sahni, Jeff Schramm, Michael Sharp, Daniel Song, Brian P. Welch, Kosei Yokoyama, Shuhuan Yu

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Proceedings Volume 8265, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XIV; 82650A (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.911581
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report on the performance of an integrated four-channel parallel optical transceiver built in a CMOS photonics process, operating at 28 Gb/s per channel. The optical engine of the transceiver comprises a single silicon die and a hybrid integrated DFB laser. The silicon die contains the all functionalities needed for an optical transceiver: transmitter and receiver optics, electrical driver, receiver and control circuits. We also describe the CMOS photonics platform used to build such transceiver device, which consists of: an optically enabled CMOS process, a photonic device library, and a design infrastructure that is modeled after standard circuit design tools. We discuss how this platform can scale to higher speeds and channel counts.

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Attila Mekis, Sherif Abdalla, Peter M. De Dobbelaere, Dennis Foltz, Steffen Gloeckner, Steven Hovey, Steven Jackson, Yi Liang, Michael Mack, Gianlorenzo Masini, Rafaela Novais, Mark Peterson, Thierry Pinguet, Subal Sahni, Jeff Schramm, Michael Sharp, Daniel Song, Brian P. Welch, Kosei Yokoyama, and Shuhuan Yu "Scaling CMOS photonics transceivers beyond 100 Gb/s", Proc. SPIE 8265, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XIV, 82650A (2 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.911581

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