High-performance silicon photonics using heterogeneous integration

C Xiang, W Jin, D Huang, MA Tran… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of silicon photonic components and integrated circuits has improved
dramatically in recent years. As a key enabler, heterogeneous integration not only provides …

Co-packaged optics (CPO): status, challenges, and solutions

M Tan, J Xu, S Liu, J Feng, H Zhang, C Yao… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
Due to the rise of 5G, IoT, AI, and high-performance computing applications, datacenter
traffic has grown at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30%. Furthermore, nearly three …

Silicon photonics for high-capacity data communications

Y Shi, Y Zhang, Y Wan, Y Yu, Y Zhang, X Hu… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

A 3D-integrated 8λ× 32 Gbps λ silicon photonic microring-based DWDM transmitter

C Levy, Z Xuan, D Huang, R Kumar… - 2023 IEEE Custom …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics-based optical 1/O is a promising technology direction to meet the ever
growing off-chip 1/O bandwidth needs of data-intensive computing. While silicon photonic …

A 4× 100 Gbps DWDM Receiver using All-Si Microring Avalanche Photodiodes

Y Yuan, Y Peng, Z Huang, J Hulme… - Optical Fiber …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an O-band 4-channel DWDM receiver using all-Si microring APDs. Each all-
Si APD exhibits a low dark current at nA level before the breakdown, a responsivity of~ 0.5 …

Advancing All Silicon MOSCAP Ring Modulators With Ultra-Thin Sub-5 nm Insulator

TY Chang, M Ebert, K Li, J Zhu, X Yan, H Du… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate silicon/SiO/polysilicon lateral MOS-Capacitor (MOSCAP) RRM operating
above 50 GHz with modulation amplitude enhanced by a large plasma absorption within the …

Universal silicon ring resonator for error-free transmission links

J Zhu, W Zhang, K Li, B Pant, M Ebert, X Yan… - Photonics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We report the design, fabrication, and characterization of a universal silicon PN junction ring
resonator for C band error-free communication links operated up to 50 Gb/s with co …

3D-Integrated, Low Power, High Bandwidth Density Opto-Electronic Transceiver

D Khilwani, S Lee, C Ou, S Daudlin… - … on Circuits and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a dense, highly parallel, and scalable multi-channel transceiver array for
photonic chip-to-chip links. A CMOS electronic chip is flip-chipped onto a silicon photonic …

Step PN Junction-Based Silicon Microring Modulator for High-Speed Application

JS RG, VR Balaji - Silicon, 2022 - Springer
The prerequisite for a high-performance optical modulator is to support high data rate
operation, which depends on the modulator's index variation. A silicon microring modulator …

A Quantitative Investigation on the Impact of Microring Modulator Coupling States to 112 Gbps PAM4 Signal Transmission

J Tan, K Zhu, W Meng, Q Wang, Y Sun… - 2023 Asia …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive quantitative analysis on the impact of silicon
microring modulators (Si-MRM) coupling states to 112 Gbps PAM4 transmission system …