Single-chip microprocessor that communicates directly using light

C Sun, MT Wade, Y Lee, JS Orcutt, L Alloatti… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Data transport across short electrical wires is limited by both bandwidth and power density,
which creates a performance bottleneck for semiconductor microchips in modern computer …

Monolithic silicon-photonic platforms in state-of-the-art CMOS SOI processes

V Stojanović, RJ Ram, M Popović, S Lin, S Moazeni… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Integrating photonics with advanced electronics leverages transistor performance, process
fidelity and package integration, to enable a new class of systems-on-a-chip for a variety of …

A 45 nm CMOS-SOI monolithic photonics platform with bit-statistics-based resonant microring thermal tuning

C Sun, M Wade, M Georgas, S Lin… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The microring resonator is critical for dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) chip-
to-chip optical I/O, enabling modulation and channel selection at the-scale suitable for a …

On-chip optical convolutional neural networks

H Bagherian, S Skirlo, Y Shen, H Meng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a class of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) that
employ the method of convolving input images with filter-kernels for object recognition and …

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 …

A monolithically-integrated chip-to-chip optical link in bulk CMOS

C Sun, M Georgas, J Orcutt, B Moss… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon-photonics is an emerging technology that can overcome the tradeoffs faced by
traditional electrical I/O. Due to ballooning development costs for advanced CMOS nodes …

Packaging optoelectronic components and CMOS circuitry using silicon-on-insulator substrates for photonics applications

RA Budd, M Meghelli, JS Orcutt… - US Patent 9,786,641, 2017 - Google Patents
Package structures and methods are provided to integrate optoelectronic and CMOS
devices using SOI semiconductor substrates for photonics applications. For example, a pack …

Quantum-correlated photon pairs generated in a commercial 45 nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor microelectronic chip

CM Gentry, JM Shainline, MT Wade, MJ Stevens… - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Correlated photon pairs are a fundamental building block of quantum photonic systems.
While pair sources have previously been integrated on silicon chips built using customized …

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 …

Performance requirements for terabit-class silicon photonic links based on cascaded microring resonators

Y London, T Van Vaerenbergh, L Ramini… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The electrical interconnects in high performance computing (HPC) systems are reaching
their bandwidth capacities in supporting data-intensive applications. Currently …