High-performance systems are increasingly bottlenecked by the growing energy and
communications costs of interconnecting numerous compute and memory resources …

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We present silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based coherent optical transmitters
and receivers for high-speed long-distance fiber optical transmission. High-degree photonic …

Networks-on-chip (NoC) have emerged to tackle different on-chip communication
challenges and can satisfy different demands in terms of performance, cost and reliability …

There has been great interest in the silicon platform as a material system for integrated
photonics. A key challenge is the development of a low-power, low drive voltage, broadband …

A silicon microring modulator utilizing an interleaved pn junction phase shifter with a V_πL
of 0.76 V-cm and a minimum off-resonance insertion loss of less than 0.2 dB is …

Silicon photonics has been a very buoyant research field in the last several years mainly
because of its potential for telecom and datacom applications. However, prospects of using …

We demonstrate a high speed GeSi electro-absorption (EA) modulator monolithically
integrated on 3 µm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide. The demonstrated device has a …

The power consumption of a conventional photoreceiver is dominated by that of the electric
amplifier connected to the photodetector (PD). An ultralow-capacitance PD can overcome …

We describe transmitter and receiver circuits for a 10-Gbps single-ended optical link in a 40-
nm CMOS technology. The circuits are bonded using low-parasitic micro-solder bumps to …