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 …

The emergence of silicon photonics as a flexible technology platform

X Chen, MM Milosevic, S Stanković… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

Silicon photonic modulators for PAM transmissions

W Shi, Y Xu, H Sepehrian, S LaRochelle… - Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
High-speed optical interconnects are crucial for both data centers and high performance
computing systems. High power consumption and limited device bandwidth have hindered …

Millimeter-wave and terahertz transceivers in SiGe BiCMOS technologies

D Kissinger, G Kahmen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This invited paper reviews the progress of silicon–germanium (SiGe) bipolar-complementary
metal–oxide–semiconductor (BiCMOS) technology-based integrated circuits (ICs) during the …

A DC-to-108-GHz CMOS SOI distributed power amplifier and modulator driver leveraging multi-drive complementary stacked cells

O El-Aassar, GM Rebeiz - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a complementary distributed power amplifier (DPA) using stacked gain
cells with multiple input driving signals. The stack multi-drive compensates for the increasing …

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 …

Modular coherent photonic-aided payload receiver for communications satellites

VC Duarte, JG Prata, CF Ribeiro, RN Nogueira… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Ubiquitous satellite communications are in a leading position for bridging the digital divide.
Fulfilling such a mission will require satellite services on par with fibre services, both in …

A compact 112-Gbaud PAM-4 silicon photonics transceiver for short-reach interconnects

DWU Chan, G Zhou, X Wu, Y Tong, J Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
For next generation highly integrated transceivers, silicon photonics (SiP) has attracted
widespread interest in using mature CMOS production processes to manufacture high-yield …

Linear large-swing push–pull SiGe BiCMOS drivers for silicon photonics modulators

A Zandieh, P Schvan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The analysis, design, and experimental characterization of a novel class of large-swing low
output-impedance push-pull SiGe BiCMOS drivers are discussed. The circuits, which …

Reconfigurable and real-time high-bandwidth Nyquist signal detection with low-bandwidth in silicon photonics

A Misra, C Kress, K Singh, J Meier, T Schwabe… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, reconfigurable and real-time
orthogonal time-domain detection of a high-bandwidth Nyquist signal with a low-bandwidth …