MSM-based integrated CMOS wavelength-tunable optical receiver

Author

Chen, Ray ; Chin, Henry ; Miller, David A B ; Ma, Kai ; Harris, James S., Jr.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

Volume

17

Issue

6

fYear

2005

fDate

6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1271

Lastpage

1273

Abstract

We demonstrate a novel GaAs-metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM)-based wavelength-selective photodetector integrated with its complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) driver and receiver. This receiver has ∼1-ns wavelength switching access time and has been shown to detect 4 bits of 460-Mb/s (2.17-ns bit period) emulated data in nonreturn-to-zero format during the enabled 8.68-ns windows. The demonstrated channel spacing is ∼70.8 GHz. To our knowledge, this is the fastest reported wavelength switching time for a tunable optical receiver.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; III-V semiconductors; channel spacing; gallium arsenide; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; metal-semiconductor-metal structures; optical receivers; optical switches; optical tuning; 2.17 ns; 4 bit; 460 Mbit/s; 8.68 ns; GaAs; MSM-based integrated CMOS wavelength-tunable optical receiver; channel spacing; complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor driver; metal-semiconductor-metal-based wavelength-selective photodetector; nonreturn-to-zero format; switching access time; wavelength switching; Channel spacing; Interference; Laser tuning; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Photodetectors; RAKE receivers; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength division multiplexing; Dense wavelength-division multiplexing; metal–semiconductor–metal (MSM) photodetector; optical access network; optical code-division multiple-access; reconfigurable wavelength-division multiplexing network; telecommunication; tunable filter; tunable optical receiver; tunable photodetector;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.846579

Filename

1432799