Silicon‐compatible photodetectors: trends to monolithically integrate photosensors with chip technology

W Yang, J Chen, Y Zhang, Y Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Encouraged by the increasing requirements of intelligent equipment, silicon integrated
circuit–compatible photodetectors that support single‐chip photonic–electronic systems …

Monolithic silicon-photonic platforms in state-of-the-art CMOS SOI processes

V Stojanović, RJ Ram, M Popović, S Lin, S Moazeni… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Integrating photonics with advanced electronics leverages transistor performance, process
fidelity and package integration, to enable a new class of systems-on-a-chip for a variety of …

Single-chip microprocessor that communicates directly using light

C Sun, MT Wade, Y Lee, JS Orcutt, L Alloatti… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Data transport across short electrical wires is limited by both bandwidth and power density,
which creates a performance bottleneck for semiconductor microchips in modern computer …

Ring resonator modulators in silicon for interchip photonic links

G Li, AV Krishnamoorthy, I Shubin, J Yao… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is the most promising pathway to achieve> 10 Tb/s off-chip I/O bandwidth
required by next-generation high-performance computing and switching systems. Ring …

Silicon photonic microring-based 4× 112 Gb/s WDM transmitter with photocurrent-based thermal control in 28-nm CMOS

J Sharma, Z Xuan, H Li, T Kim, R Kumar… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a hybrid-integrated 4-micro-ring modulator-based wavelength-division
multiplexed (WDM) optical transmitter (OTX) in the O-band, suitable for co-packaged optics …

A 45 nm CMOS-SOI monolithic photonics platform with bit-statistics-based resonant microring thermal tuning

C Sun, M Wade, M Georgas, S Lin… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The microring resonator is critical for dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) chip-
to-chip optical I/O, enabling modulation and channel selection at the-scale suitable for a …

A 40-Gb/s PAM-4 transmitter based on a ring-resonator optical DAC in 45-nm SOI CMOS

S Moazeni, S Lin, M Wade, L Alloatti… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next generations of large-scale data-centers and supercomputers demand optical
interconnects to migrate to 400G and beyond. Microring modulators in silicon-photonics …

A low-noise design technique for high-speed CMOS optical receivers

D Li, G Minoia, M Repossi, D Baldi… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A careful comparison between alternative topologies to realize low-noise wideband TIAs is
carried out in this work. In order to break the tradeoff between noise and bandwidth, the …

Time‐multiplexed control of programmable silicon photonic circuits enabled by monolithic CMOS electronics

F Zanetto, F Toso, V Grimaldi, M Petrini… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Programmable photonic circuits require an electronic control layer to configure and stabilize
the optical functionality at run‐time. Such control action is normally implemented by …

Optical interconnects finally seeing the light in silicon photonics: Past the hype

H Mekawey, M Elsayed, Y Ismail, MA Swillam - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Electrical interconnects are becoming a bottleneck in the way towards meeting future
performance requirements of integrated circuits. Moore's law, which observes the doubling …