Silicon photonics for extreme scale systems

Y Shen, X Meng, Q Cheng, S Rumley… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
High-performance systems are increasingly bottlenecked by the growing energy and
communications costs of interconnecting numerous compute and memory resources …

[HTML][HTML] CORNERSTONE's silicon photonics rapid prototyping platforms: current status and future outlook

CG Littlejohns, DJ Rowe, H Du, K Li, W Zhang, W Cao… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Featured Application The CORNERSTONE silicon photonics rapid prototyping service can
be used by academic and industry researchers alike. The platform targets those who require …

Monolithic Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits for Compact 100 Gb/s Coherent Optical Receivers and Transmitters

P Dong, X Liu, S Chandrasekhar… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based coherent optical transmitters
and receivers for high-speed long-distance fiber optical transmission. High-degree photonic …

A survey of emerging interconnects for on-chip efficient multicast and broadcast in many-cores

A Karkar, T Mak, KF Tong… - IEEE Circuits and Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Networks-on-chip (NoC) have emerged to tackle different on-chip communication
challenges and can satisfy different demands in terms of performance, cost and reliability …

Ultralow drive voltage silicon traveling-wave modulator

T Baehr-Jones, R Ding, Y Liu, A Ayazi, T Pinguet… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
There has been great interest in the silicon platform as a material system for integrated
photonics. A key challenge is the development of a low-power, low drive voltage, broadband …

A 25 Gbps silicon microring modulator based on an interleaved junction

JC Rosenberg, WMJ Green, S Assefa, DM Gill… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
A silicon microring modulator utilizing an interleaved pn junction phase shifter with a V_πL
of 0.76 V-cm and a minimum off-resonance insertion loss of less than 0.2 dB is …

Silicon photonic waveguides and devices for near-and mid-IR applications

GZ Mashanovich, FY Gardes… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics has been a very buoyant research field in the last several years mainly
because of its potential for telecom and datacom applications. However, prospects of using …

High speed GeSi electro-absorption modulator at 1550 nm wavelength on SOI waveguide

D Feng, S Liao, H Liang, J Fong, B Bijlani… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a high speed GeSi electro-absorption (EA) modulator monolithically
integrated on 3 µm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide. The demonstrated device has a …

10-Gbps, 5.3-mW optical transmitter and receiver circuits in 40-nm CMOS

FY Liu, D Patil, J Lexau, P Amberg… - IEEE journal of solid …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe transmitter and receiver circuits for a 10-Gbps single-ended optical link in a 40-
nm CMOS technology. The circuits are bonded using low-parasitic micro-solder bumps to …

Photonic-crystal nano-photodetector with ultrasmall capacitance for on-chip light-to-voltage conversion without an amplifier

K Nozaki, S Matsuo, T Fujii, K Takeda, M Ono… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The power consumption of a conventional photoreceiver is dominated by that of the electric
amplifier connected to the photodetector (PD). An ultralow-capacitance PD can overcome …