Scaling up silicon photonic-based accelerators: Challenges and opportunities

MA Al-Qadasi, L Chrostowski, BJ Shastri, S Shekhar - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Digital accelerators in the latest generation of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor
processes support, multiply, and accumulate (MAC) operations at energy efficiencies …

Co-packaged photonics for high performance computing: status, challenges and opportunities

R Mahajan, X Li, J Fryman, Z Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonics die or integrated photonics modules co-packaged with compute engines have the
potential to deliver significant improvements in power, bandwidth and reach needed to meet …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective on the future of silicon photonics and electronics

C **ang, SM Bowers, A Bjorlin, R Blum… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Silicon photonics is advancing rapidly in performance and capability with multiple fabrication
facilities and foundries having advanced passive and active devices, including modulators …

Silicon photonics for high-capacity data communications

Y Shi, Y Zhang, Y Wan, Y Yu, Y Zhang, X Hu… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

Opportunities and challenges for large-scale phase-change material integrated electro-photonics

R Chen, Z Fang, F Miller, H Rarick, JE Froch… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Programmable photonics have the potential to completely transform a range of emerging
applications, including optical computing, optical signal processing, light detecting and …

Neuromorphic silicon photonics and hardware-aware deep learning for high-speed inference

M Moralis-Pegios… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The relentless growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads has fueled the drive towards
non-Von Neuman architectures and custom computing hardware. Neuromorphic photonic …

Harnessing plasma absorption in silicon MOS ring modulators

W Zhang, M Ebert, K Li, B Chen, X Yan, H Du… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High-bandwidth, low-power and compact silicon electro-optical modulators are essential for
future energy-efficient and densely integrated optical data communication circuits. The all …

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 …

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 …

A 112-Gb/s—8.2-dBm Sensitivity 4-PAM Linear TIA in 16-nm CMOS With Co-Packaged Photodiodes

D Patel, A Sharif-Bakhtiar… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A flip-chip co-packaged linear transimpedance amplifier (TIA) in 16-nm fin field effect
transistor (FinFET) CMOS demonstrating 112-Gb/s four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (4 …