Title :
Monolithic travelling-wave Mach-Zehnder transmitter with high-swing stacked CMOS driver
Author :
Gill, Douglas M. ; Proesel, J. ; Xiong, Chuan ; Rosenberg, Jessie C. ; Khater, M. ; Barwicz, Tymon ; Assefa, Solomon ; Shank, Steven M. ; Reinholm, Carol ; Kiewra, Edward ; Ellis-Monaghan, John ; Kamlapurkar, Swetha ; Green, William M. J. ; Vlasov, Yurii
Author_Institution :
IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
We present a 20 Gb/s monolithically integrated transmitter with stacked CMOS driver and periodic-loaded PN-junction Mach-Zehnder modulator fabricated in IBM´s sub-100nm technology node. Transmitter extinction ratios of 10 dB at 20 Gb/s are demonstrated.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical modulation; optical transmitters; p-n junctions; IBM; bit rate 20 Gbit/s; high-swing stacked CMOS driver; monolithic travelling-wave Mach-Zehnder transmitter; monolithically integrated transmitter; periodic-loaded PN-junction Mach-Zehnder modulator; size 100 nm; transmitter extinction ratios; CMOS integrated circuits; Electrodes; Optical device fabrication; Optical imaging; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Radio frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
