Demonstration of a High Extinction Ratio Monolithic CMOS Integrated Nanophotonic Transmitter and 16 Gb/s Optical Link

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作者
Gill, Douglas M. [1 ]
Proesel, Jonathan E. [1 ]
Xiong, Chi [1 ]
Orcutt, Jason S. [1 ]
Rosenberg, Jessie C. [1 ]
Khater, Marwan H. [1 ]
Barwicz, Tymon [1 ]
Assefa, Solomon [1 ]
Shank, Steven M. [2 ]
Reinholm, Carol [2 ]
Ellis-Monaghan, John [2 ]
Kiewra, Edward [2 ]
Kamlapurkar, Swetha [1 ]
Breslin, Chris M. [1 ]
Green, William M. J. [1 ]
Haensch, Wilfried [1 ]
Vlasov, Yurii A. [1 ]
机构
[1] IBM TJ Watson Res Ctr, Yorktown Hts, NY 10598 USA
[2] IBM Microelect Div, Essex Jct, VT 05452 USA
关键词
Electrooptic modulators; integrated optics; electrooptic devices; HIGH-SPEED; CARRIER-DEPLETION; LOW-POWER; MODULATOR; PERFORMANCE; DRIVER; FABRICATION; CIRCUITS; DESIGN;
D O I
10.1109/JSTQE.2014.2381468
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We present a 16-Gb/s transmitter composed of a stacked voltage-mode CMOS driver and periodic-loaded reverse biased pn junction Mach-Zehnder modulator. The transmitter shows 9-dB extinction ratio and 10.3-pJ/bit power consumption and operates with 1.3 mu m light. Penalties as low as 0.5 dB were seen as compared to a 25-Gb/s LiNbO3 transmitter with both a monolithic metal-semiconductor-metal receiver and a reference receiver at 16-Gb/s operation. We also present an analytic expression for relative transmitter penalty (RTP), which allows one to quickly assess the system impact of design parameters such as peak-to-peak modulator drive voltage, modulator figure of merit, and transmitter extinction ratio to determine the circumstances under which a stacked CMOS cascode driver is desirable.
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页数:11
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