Title :
Low power CMOS-driven 1060 nm multimode optical link
Author :
Heroux, Jean Benoit ; Kise, Tomofumi ; Funabashi, Masaki ; Aoki, Toyohiro ; Schow, Clint ; Rylyakov, A.V. ; Nakagawa, Sachiko
Author_Institution :
IBM Res. - Tokyo, Kawasaki, Japan
Abstract :
A high speed, low power 1060nm optical link with 90-nm CMOS chips is demonstrated using a VCSEL bias as low as 2 mA. A 4.9 pJ/bit efficiency is obtained at 20 Gbps.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; low-power electronics; optical fibres; optical links; surface emitting lasers; CMOS chips; VCSEL bias; bit rate 20 Gbit/s; low power CMOS; multimode optical link; size 1060 nm; Bit error rate; Integrated circuits; Integrated optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical transmitters; Power dissipation; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th3C.6
