Monolithically integrated 112 Gbps PAM4 optical transmitter and receiver in a 45nm CMOS-silicon photonics process

Autor: Matthew Streshinsky, Lei Wang, Ari Novack, Yogi Ahuja, Rhys Manley, Patrick Maupin, Hao Wu, Jinghui Yang, Fen Guan, Romanas Narevich, Chris Horng, Noam Ophir, Jiahao Zhan, Jim Mali, Wuchun Wu, Katherine Roelofs, Yun Zhe Li, Vesselin Velev, Babak Behnia, Brian West, Artsroun Darbinian, Gabriel Thompson, George Zarris, Xavier Serey, Saman Jafarlou, Matthew Chang, Shahab Ardalan, Thomas Baehr-Jones
Rok vydání: 2023
DOI: 10.1364/opticaopen.22814837.v1
Popis: We demonstrate a transmitter and receiver in a silicon photonics platform for O-band optical communication that monolithically incorporates a modulator driver, traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator, control circuitry, photodetector, and TIA in the GlobalFoundries Fotonix™ (45SPCLO) platform. The transmitter and receiver show an open 112 Gbps PAM4 eye at a 4.3 pJ/bit energy efficiency, not including the laser. Extensive use of gain-peaking enables our modulator driver and TIA to achieve the high bandwidths needed in the 45 nm CMOS-silicon photonics process. Our results suggest an alternative to the frequent approach of bump-bonding BiCMOS drivers and TIAs to silicon photonics.
Databáze: OpenAIRE