Title :
A monolithic microring transmitter in 90 nm SOI CMOS technology
Author :
Rosenberg, Jessie C. ; Green, William M. J. ; Proesel, J. ; Assefa, Solomon ; Gill, Douglas M. ; Barwicz, Tymon ; Shank, Steven M. ; Reinholm, Carol ; Khater, M. ; Kiewra, Edward ; Kamlapurkar, Swetha ; Vlasov, Yurii A.
Author_Institution :
IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
A silicon microring modulator with independent resonance and coupling tunability is monolithically integrated with a stacked CMOS driver. At 25Gbps, the OMA is -1.9dBm, the extinction ratio is 3.5dB, and the excess loss is 2.6dB.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; amplitude modulation; extinction coefficients; integrated optoelectronics; micro-optics; monolithic integrated circuits; optical losses; optical modulation; optical transmitters; silicon-on-insulator; OMA; SOI CMOS technology; Si; bit rate 25 Gbit/s; coupling tunability; extinction ratio; monolithic integration; monolithic microring transmitter; optical loss; optical modulation amplitude; resonance tunability; silicon microring modulator; size 90 nm; stacked CMOS driver; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Extinction ratio; Optical modulation; Optical reflection; Optical transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656515
