Embedded photodetectors in polymer waveguides for optical interconnect integrated with a Si-Ge transimpedance amplifier circuit operating at 2.5 Gbit/s

Author

Shin, Jaemin ; Seo, Sang-Woo ; Cho, Sang-Yeon ; Kim, Jae Hong ; Brook, Martin ; Jokerst, Nan Marie

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., USA

fYear

2004

fDate

28-30 June 2004

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

16

Abstract

In this paper, the first report of a photodetector embedded in a polymer waveguide with output to a Si-Ge transimpedance amplifier is reported. This system was tested with an endfire coupled optical input to the multimode polymer waveguide, and, through direct coupling of this light to the photodetector from the waveguide followed by photodetector current output to a Maxim Si-Ge transimpedance amplifier, operation of this interconnection channel at 2.5 Gbps has been demonstrated.

Keywords

amplifiers; germanium; optical interconnections; optical polymers; optical waveguides; photodetectors; silicon; 2.5 Gbit/s; Maxim Si-Ge transimpedance amplifier circuit; Si-Ge; embedded photodetectors; interconnection channel; multimode polymer waveguide; optical interconnect; Circuit testing; Coupling circuits; Optical amplifiers; Optical coupling; Optical interconnections; Optical polymers; Optical waveguides; Photodetectors; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WBM Microcavities, 2004 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

ISSN

1099-4742

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8306-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2004.1338682

Filename

1338682