Co-packaged optics (CPO): status, challenges, and solutions

M Tan, J Xu, S Liu, J Feng, H Zhang, C Yao… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
Due to the rise of 5G, IoT, AI, and high-performance computing applications, datacenter
traffic has grown at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30%. Furthermore, nearly three …

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 …

A 3-D-integrated silicon photonic microring-based 112-Gb/s PAM-4 transmitter with nonlinear equalization and thermal control

H Li, G Balamurugan, T Kim, MN Sakib… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microring modulators (MRMs) with CMOS electronics enable compact low power transmitter
solutions for 400G Ethernet and co-packaged optical transceivers. In this article, we present …

Silicon photonic microring-based 4× 112 Gb/s WDM transmitter with photocurrent-based thermal control in 28-nm CMOS

J Sharma, Z Xuan, H Li, T Kim, R Kumar… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a hybrid-integrated 4-micro-ring modulator-based wavelength-division
multiplexed (WDM) optical transmitter (OTX) in the O-band, suitable for co-packaged optics …

A 100 Gb/s PAM4 two-segment silicon microring resonator modulator using a standard foundry process

Y Yuan, WV Sorin, Z Huang, X Zeng, D Liang… - Acs …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A compact two-segment depletion mode silicon microring resonator modulator with PAM4
modulation data rate up to 100 Gb/s has been demonstrated. The microring resonator …

A 112 Gb/s PAM4 silicon photonics transmitter with microring modulator and CMOS driver

H Li, G Balamurugan, M Sakib, J Sun… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Microring modulators (MRMs) with CMOS electronics enable compact low power transmitter
solutions for 400G Ethernet and future on-package optical transceivers. In this paper, we …

Silicon photonic Mach–Zehnder modulator architectures for on chip PAM-4 signal generation

A Samani, E El-Fiky, M Morsy-Osman, R Li… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Four level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) has become the modulation format of choice
to replace on–off keying (OOK) for the 400 Gb/s short reach optical communications …

A 112 Gb/s PAM4 transmitter with silicon photonics microring modulator and CMOS driver

H Li, G Balamurugan, M Sakib, J Sun… - 2019 Optical Fiber …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 112 Gb/s PAM4 Transmitter with Silicon Photonics Microring Modulator and CMOS Driver
Page 1 Th4A.4.pdf OFC 2019 © OSA 2019 A 112 Gb/s PAM4 Transmitter with Silicon Photonics …

A 100-Gb/s PAM4 optical transmitter in a 3-D-integrated SiPh-CMOS platform using segmented MOSCAP modulators

AH Talkhooncheh, W Zhang, M Wang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 100-Gb/s four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4) optical
transmitter system implemented in a 3-D-integrated silicon photonics-CMOS platform. The …

Energy efficiency analysis of comb source carrier-injection ring-based silicon photonic link

Y London, T Van Vaerenbergh, AJ Rizzo… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current electronic interconnections in high performance computing (HPC) systems are
reaching their limit in supporting high data traffic demands. Dense wavelength-division …