Title :
Energy-efficient active photonics in a zero-change, state-of-the-art CMOS process
Author :
Wade, M.T. ; Shainline, J.M. ; Orcutt, Jason S. ; Sun, Chao ; Kumar, Ravindra ; Moss, B. ; Georgas, M. ; Ram, R.J. ; Stojanovic, V. ; Popovic, Milos A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr., Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
Based on a novel, “spoked-ring” active microcavity, we demonstrate optical modulators in an unmodified 45nm SOI CMOS process at 5Gbps with <;5fJ/bit energy consumption; and filters with record thermal tuning efficiency of 2μW/GHz.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; integrated optics; micro-optics; microcavities; optical filters; optical modulation; silicon-on-insulator; bit rate 5 Gbit/s; energy-efficient active photonics; optical filters; optical modulators; spoked-ring active microcavity; thermal tuning efficiency; unmodified SOI CMOS process; zero-change; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS process; Cavity resonators; Optical device fabrication; Optical modulation; Photonics;
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.Tu2E.7
