1.9-pJ/bit 0.5-mm2 High-Speed Optical Transmitter including Silicon Slow-Light Modulator and Current-Mode BiCMOS Driver
Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany
Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Kawahara, Keisuke; Tsuchizawa, Tai; Yamamoto, Noritsugu; Maegami, Yuriko; Yamada, Koji; Hara, Shinsuke; Baba, Toshihiko
Abstract:
A high-speed optical transmitter including a silicon slow-light Mach-Zehnder modulator and a current-mode BiCMOS driver was EO co-designed and integrated. We experimentally achieved a 1.9-pJ/bit total efficiency and a 0.5-mm2 footprint.