• DocumentCode
    3697938
  • Title

    A 30 Gb/s CMOS driver integrated with silicon photonics MZM

  • Author

    Ke Li;Dave J. Thomson;Shenghao Liu;Peter Wilson;Graham. T. Reed

  • Author_Institution
    Silicon Photonics Group, Zepler Institute, University of Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    311
  • Lastpage
    314
  • Abstract
    A voltage mode modulator driver is proposed in the TSMC 65nm low power CMOS process. In the electrical testing, the driver itself can achieve a bit rate of 40Gb/s with the single-ended output swing of 1.65V. Unlike equivalent CML modulator drivers, when the proposed driver is integrated with the silicon photonic MZM, it does not require an additional biasing network. The integrated electro-optic transmitter can achieve 30Gb/s with an extinction ratio of 4.05dB, with the power consumption of main driver being 323mW.
  • Keywords
    "CMOS integrated circuits","Silicon photonics","Optical transmitters","Inductors","Power demand","Bandwidth","Modulation"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2015 IEEE
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RFIC.2015.7337767
  • Filename
    7337767
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3697938