Ultralow-Power High-Performance Si Photonic Transmitter
- 1 January 2010
- proceedings article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group
Abstract
We report a 320fJ/bit transmitter made of a Si microring modulator flip-chip bonded to a CMOS driver. The transmitter consumes only 1.6mW power, and exhibits a wide open eye with extinction ratio >7dB at 5Gb/s.Keywords
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