Silicon photonic modulators for PAM transmissions

W Shi, Y Xu, H Sepehrian, S LaRochelle… - Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
High-speed optical interconnects are crucial for both data centers and high performance
computing systems. High power consumption and limited device bandwidth have hindered …

Silicon-photonics microring links for datacenters—Challenges and opportunities

AH Ahmed, A Sharkia, B Casper… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid growth of warehouse-scale datacenters demands high-throughput optical
interconnects that can span short-to-medium reach distances (<; few kilometers). Microring …

A 40-Gb/s PAM-4 transmitter based on a ring-resonator optical DAC in 45-nm SOI CMOS

S Moazeni, S Lin, M Wade, L Alloatti… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next generations of large-scale data-centers and supercomputers demand optical
interconnects to migrate to 400G and beyond. Microring modulators in silicon-photonics …

[LIVRE][B] Silicon optoelectronic integrated circuits

H Zimmermann, H Zimmermann, Evenson - 2004 - Springer
The Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics provides systematic information on all the
topics relevant for the design, processing, and manufacturing of microelectronic devices …

ARXON: A Framework for Approximate Communication Over Photonic Networks-on-Chip

FP Sunny, A Mirza, I Thakkar, M Nikdast… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The approximate computing paradigm advocates for relaxing accuracy goals in applications
to improve energy-efficiency and performance. Recently, this paradigm has been explored …

A two-segment optical DAC 40 Gb/s PAM4 silicon microring resonator modulator transmitter in 65nm CMOS

A Roshan-Zamir, B Wang, S Telaprolu… - 2017 IEEE Optical …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A two-segment silicon photonic microring modulator implements an optical DAC for PAM4
modulation. Independent level and edge-rate control is achieved using segmented …

Improving the reliability and energy-efficiency of high-bandwidth photonic NoC architectures with multilevel signaling

IG Thakkar, SVR Chittamuru, S Pasricha - Proceedings of the Eleventh …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Photonic network-on-chip (PNoC) architectures employ photonic waveguides with dense-
wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) for signal traversal and microring resonators …

Theoretical analysis of energy efficiency and bandwidth limit of silicon photonic modulators

E Li, AX Wang - Journal of Lightwave technology, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Parallel optical interconnects at the extreme scale hold the key to resolve the grand
challenge of moving enormous amount of data between on-chip cores and within multi-chip …

A differential push-pull voltage mode VCSEL driver in 65-nm CMOS

AS Ramani, S Nayak, S Shekhar - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Improving power-conversion efficiency (PCE) of VCSEL drivers is paramount to improve the
overall energy efficiency of the entire optical link for high-performance computing and data …

[PDF][PDF] Modulation on silicon for datacom: Past, present, and future (invited review)

B Wang, Q Huang, K Chen, J Zhang, G Kurczveil… - Progress In …, 2019 - jpier.org
Datacenters become an important part of technical infrastructure. The Datacom traffic grows
exponentially to satisfy the demands in IT services, storage, communications, and …