• DocumentCode
    1771559
  • 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
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989495