Author :
Li, Guoliang ; Zheng, Xuezhe ; Lexau, Jon ; Luo, Ying ; Thacker, Hiren ; Dong, Po ; Liao, Shirong ; Feng, Dazeng ; Zheng, Dawei ; Shafiiha, Roshanak ; Asghari, Mehdi ; Yao, Jin ; Shi, Jing ; Amberg, Philip ; Pinckney, Nathaniel ; Raj, Kannan ; Ho, Ron ; C
Author_Institution :
Sun Microsyst. Phys. Sci. Center, San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract :
We report a 320 fJ/bit transmitter made of a Si microring modulator flip-chip bonded to a CMOS driver. The transmitter consumes only 1.6 mW power, and exhibits a wide open eye with extinction ratio >7 dB at 5 Gb/s.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; driver circuits; elemental semiconductors; integrated circuit bonding; integrated optics; modulators; optical transmitters; silicon; CMOS driver; Si; Ultralow-Power High-Performance Photonic Transmitter; microring modulator flip-chip; power 1.6 mW; Capacitance; Energy consumption; Extinction ratio; High speed optical techniques; Optical modulation; Optical resonators; Optical transmitters; Optical waveguides; Phase modulation; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
