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 …

A 71-Gb/s NRZ modulated 850-nm VCSEL-based optical link

DM Kuchta, AV Rylyakov, FE Doany… - IEEE Photonics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report error free (BER<; 10-12) operation of a directly non-return-to-zero modulated 850-
nm vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) link operating to 71 Gb/s. This is the …

VCSEL-based interconnects for current and future data centers

JA Tatum, D Gazula, LA Graham… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
The vast majority of optical links within the data center are based on vertical cavity surface
emitting lasers (VCSELs) operating at 850 nm over multimode optical fiber. Deployable links …

Design of 56 Gb/s NRZ and PAM4 SerDes transceivers in CMOS technologies

J Lee, PC Chiang, PJ Peng, LY Chen… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents two ultra-high-speed SerDes dedicated for PAM4 and NRZ data. The
PAM4 TX incorporates an output driver with 3-tap FFE and adjustable weighting to deliver …

70 Gbps 4-PAM and 56 Gbps 8-PAM using an 850 nm VCSEL

K Szczerba, P Westbergh, M Karlsson… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We present 56 Gbps unequalized 8-pulse-amplitude-modulation (PAM) real-time
transmission over 50 m of multimode fiber and 70 Gbps 4-PAM operation with offline …

New applications boost VCSEL quantities: recent developments at Philips

M Grabherr - Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers XIX, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Besides the mature and steadily growing datacom market for which VCSELs are key
components in Transceivers, Active Optical Cables (AOC), Mid Board Optical Modules …

A 50 Gb/s NRZ modulated 850 nm VCSEL transmitter operating error free to 90 C

DM Kuchta, AV Rylyakov, CL Schow… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on the properties of an 850 nm vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)
transmitter running at 50 Gb/s with NRZ modulation from 30° C to 90° C. This is the highest …

37-GHz modulation via resonance tuning in single-mode coherent vertical-cavity laser arrays

STMK Fryslie, MPT Siriani, DF Siriani… - IEEE Photonics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We show a significant improvement of modulation bandwidth from 2*1 photonic crystal
vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser arrays. Control of injection bias conditions to array …

A 40 Gb/s Monolithically Integrated Linear Photonic Receiver in a BiCMOS SiGe:C Technology

A Awny, R Nagulapalli, G Winzer… - IEEE Microwave and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents the first 40 Gb/s monolithically integrated silicon photonics linear
receiver (Rx) comprising a germanium photodiode (Ge-PD) and a linear transimpedance …

A 32 Gb/s, 4.7 pJ/bit optical link with− 11.7 dBm sensitivity in 14-nm FinFET CMOS

JE Proesel, Z Toprak-Deniz, A Cevrero… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a 32 Gb/s non-return-to-zero optical link using 850-nm vertical-cavity
surface-emitting laser-based multi-mode optics with 14-nm bulk FinFET CMOS circuits. The …