Title :
Low power silicon photonic transceivers
Author :
Zheng, Xuezhe ; Cunningham, John E. ; Ho, Ron ; Lexau, Jon ; Li, Guoliang ; Luo, Ying ; Thacker, Hiren ; Yao, Jin ; Liu, Frankie ; Patil, Dinesh ; Amberg, Philip ; Pinckney, Nathaniel ; Dong, Po ; Feng, Dazeng ; Asghari, Mehdi ; Mekis, Attila ; Pinguet, T
Author_Institution :
Sun Labs., Oracle, San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract :
We present ultra low power silicon photonic transceivers, including a 320 fJ/bit reverse biased ring modulator integrated with CMOS driver, and a 690 fJ/bit record-low power receiver with sensitivity of -18.9 dBm at 5 Gbps for bit-error-rate of 10-12.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; driver circuits; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; low-power electronics; optical modulation; optical receivers; optical transmitters; silicon; transceivers; CMOS driver; Si; bit rate 5 Gbit/s; low power silicon photonic transceiver; reverse biased ring modulator; CMOS integrated circuits; Modulation; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Receivers; Silicon; Transceivers;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Playa del Carmen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3730-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3731-3
DOI :
10.1109/PHOSST.2010.5553683
