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 …

A 3-D-integrated silicon photonic microring-based 112-Gb/s PAM-4 transmitter with nonlinear equalization and thermal control

H Li, G Balamurugan, T Kim, MN Sakib… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microring modulators (MRMs) with CMOS electronics enable compact low power transmitter
solutions for 400G Ethernet and co-packaged optical transceivers. In this article, we present …

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 50-Gb/s PAM-4 silicon-photonic transmitter incorporating lumped-segment MZM, distributed CMOS driver, and integrated CDR

Q Liao, Y Zhang, S Ma, L Wang, L Li… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 50-Gb/s optical transmitter (TX), consisting of a 40-nm distributed
CMOS driver and a 180-nm silicon-photonic modulator. A lumped-segment Mach–Zehnder …

A dual-polarization silicon-photonic coherent transmitter supporting 552 Gb/s/wavelength

AH Ahmed, A El Moznine, D Lim, Y Ma… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coherent optical links improve spectral efficiency over their intensity-modulation direct-
detect (IM-DD) counterparts using advanced modulation schemes such as quadrature …

Silicon photonics platforms for optical communication systems, outlook on future developments

H Tsuda - IEICE Electronics Express, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
This paper reviews recent progress in silicon photonics and compares it with other optical
device platforms. The key components for optical communication systems, including arrayed …

Multiplexing in photonics as a resource for optical ternary content-addressable memory functionality

Y London, T Van Vaerenbergh, L Ramini, A Descos… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
In this paper, we combine a Content-Addressable Memory (CAM) encoding scheme
previously proposed for analog electronic CAMs (E-CAMs) with optical multiplexing …

A 100-Gb/s PAM4 optical transmitter in a 3-D-integrated SiPh-CMOS platform using segmented MOSCAP modulators

AH Talkhooncheh, W Zhang, M Wang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 100-Gb/s four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4) optical
transmitter system implemented in a 3-D-integrated silicon photonics-CMOS platform. The …

16-channel photonic–electric co-designed silicon transmitter with ultra-low power consumption

J Shi, M Jin, T Yang, H Shu, F Yang, H Liu… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
A hybrid integrated 16-channel silicon transmitter based on co-designed photonic integrated
circuits (PICs) and electrical chiplets is demonstrated. The driver in the 65 nm CMOS …

A 56-Gb/s reconfigurable silicon-photonics transmitter using high-swing distributed driver and 2-tap in-segment feed-forward equalizer in 65-nm CMOS

J He, Y Zhang, H Liu, Q Liao, Z Zhang… - … on Circuits and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a reconfigurable silicon-photonics transmitter (TX) for short-reach
optical interconnects. The proposed hybrid-integrated TX combines a 65-nm CMOS driver …