Survey of photonic and plasmonic interconnect technologies for intra-datacenter and high-performance computing communications

CA Thraskias, EN Lallas, N Neumann… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large scale data centers (DC) and high performance computing (HPC) systems require
more and more computing power at higher energy efficiency. They are already consuming …

The emergence of silicon photonics as a flexible technology platform

X Chen, MM Milosevic, S Stanković… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

Circuit-level convergence of electronics and photonics: basic concepts and recent advances

M Tan, Y Wang, KX Wang, Y Yu, X Zhang - Frontiers of optoelectronics, 2022 - Springer
Integrated photonics is widely regarded as an important post-Moore's law research direction.
However, it suffers from intrinsic limitations, such as lack of control and satisfactory photonic …

Silicon photonic integrated circuits for wavelength-division multiplexing applications

P Dong - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics will provide low-cost, high-bandwidth and compact optical components for
a wide range of applications in optical communications and interconnects. One of the cited …

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 …

Wavelength tuning and stabilization of microring-based filters using silicon in-resonator photoconductive heaters

H Jayatilleka, K Murray, MÁ Guillén-Torres… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that n-doped resistive heaters in silicon waveguides show photoconductive
effects with high responsivities. These photoconductive heaters, integrated into microring …

A 25 Gb/s, 4.4 V-swing, AC-coupled ring modulator-based WDM transmitter with wavelength stabilization in 65 nm CMOS

H Li, Z Xuan, A Titriku, C Li, K Yu… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics devices offer promising solution to meet the growing bandwidth demands
of next-generation interconnects. This paper presents a 5× 25 Gb/s carrier-depletion …

High-order adiabatic elliptical-microring filter with an ultra-large free-spectral-range

D Liu, L Zhang, Y Tan, D Dai - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021 - opg.optica.org
A silicon photonic filter with an ultra-large free spectral range (FSR) is proposed and
demonstrated by introducing high-order adiabatic elliptical-microrings (AEMs) with bent …

A linear-mode LiDAR sensor using a multi-channel CMOS transimpedance amplifier array

C Hong, SH Kim, JH Kim, SM Park - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a linear-mode optical sensor for the feasible applications of unmanned
vehicle LiDAR systems, in which a pulsed-erbium fiber laser is exploited as a light source …

A 50-Gb/s PAM-4 silicon-photonic transmitter incorporating lumped-segment MZM, distributed CMOS driver, and integrated CDR

Q Liao, Y Zhang, S Ma, L Wang, L Li… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 50-Gb/s optical transmitter (TX), consisting of a 40-nm distributed
CMOS driver and a 180-nm silicon-photonic modulator. A lumped-segment Mach–Zehnder …