CMOS Photonics for High-Speed Interconnects
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Luxtera has demonstrated the technology required to implement CMOS photonics, and product development is underway. It has also demonstrated all the technology required for 10-Gbps operation, in addition to that required to scale to 100 Gbps and 1 Tbps. A single 10-Gbps channel today integrates tens of optical components into a single die alongside circuitry of modest gate count, 100,000 per transceiver. For the first time, high-speed optical communications directly between silicon die are possible at a price-performance point competitive with traditional electrical interconnects
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Developing a monolithic EPIC process starting with a CMOS (or BiCMOS) SOI process and optimizing it for photonic applications has been demonstrated several times successfully.
“Developing a monolithic EPIC process (Fig. 4e), starting with a CMOS (or BiCMOS) SOI process and optimizing it for photonic applications, has been demonstrated several times130–132 successfully.”
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- Gunn, C.
- Corresponding author
- Gunn, C.
- ORCID
- Gunn, C.
- Venue
- IEEE Micro
- Published
- 2006-03
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 58-66
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- 0272-1732 (ISSN-L)
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- 27.99
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- en
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Photonic and Optical Devices
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Interconnection Networks and Systems
- Keywords
- CMOS photonics, silicon photonics, high-speed optical links, optical transceivers, 10 Gbps optical communication, integrated optical devices
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