Silicon-photonics microring links for datacenters—Challenges and opportunities

AH Ahmed, A Sharkia, B Casper… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid growth of warehouse-scale datacenters demands high-throughput optical
interconnects that can span short-to-medium reach distances (<; few kilometers). Microring …

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 …

Coherent photonic crossbar arrays for large-scale matrix-matrix multiplication

N Youngblood - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advances in deep learning research over the past decade have been enabled by an
increasingly unsustainable demand for compute power. This trend has dramatically …

Coherent modulation up to 100 GBd 16QAM using silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) devices

S Wolf, H Zwickel, C Kieninger, M Lauermann… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the generation of higher-order modulation formats using silicon-based
inphase/quadrature (IQ) modulators at symbol rates of up to 100 GBd. Our devices exploit …

Ultralow-power (1.59 mW/Gbps), 56-Gbps PAM4 operation of Si photonic transmitter integrating segmented PIN Mach–Zehnder modulator and 28-nm CMOS driver

S Tanaka, T Simoyama, T Aoki, T Mori… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A highly power-efficient silicon (Si) photonic PAM4 transmitter was developed by integrating
a Si segmented Mach–Zehnder modulator and a CMOS driver chip. Si pin-type phase …

A Monolithically Integrated Segmented Linear Driver and Modulator in EPIC 0.25- m SiGe:C BiCMOS Platform

P Rito, IG López, D Petousi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a monolithically integrated segmented linear driver and Mach-Zehnder
modulator (MZM) are presented. The transmitter is fabricated in electronic-photonic …

[图书][B] Silicon optoelectronic integrated circuits

H Zimmermann, H Zimmermann, Evenson - 2004 - Springer
The Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics provides systematic information on all the
topics relevant for the design, processing, and manufacturing of microelectronic devices …

Electronic–photonic co-optimization of high-speed silicon photonic transmitters

S Lin, S Moazeni, KT Settaluri… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
System-level driven electronic–photonic codesign is the key to improving the bandwidth
density and energy efficiency for high-speed silicon photonic links. In many data …

Flexible transmitter employing silicon-segmented Mach–Zehnder modulator with 32-nm CMOS distributed driver

TN Huynh, N Dupuis, R Rimolo-Donadio… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a flexible optical transmitter for the short-reach optical interconnects that
includes a silicon photonic segmented Mach-Zehnder modulator driven by a distributed six …

50 GBd PAM4 transmitter with a 55nm SiGe BiCMOS driver and silicon photonic segmented MZM

L Breyne, H Ramon, K Van Gasse, M Verplaetse… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an optical transmitter consisting of a limiting SiGe BiCMOS driver co-
designed and co-packaged with a silicon photonic segmented traveling-wave Mach …