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Active Components for 50 Gb/s NRZ-OOK Optical Interconnects in a Silicon Photonics Platform

Marianna Pantouvaki, Srinivasan Ashwyn Srinivasan, Yuseok Ban, Peter De Heyn, Peter Verheyen, Guy Lepage, Hong Tao Chen, Jeroen De Coster, Negin Golshani, Sadhishkumar Balakrishnan,

Journal of Lightwave Technology · 2016 · 199 citations · 21 references

Concepts

EngineeringElectrical EngineeringOptoelectronicsPhotonicsSemiconductor DevicesCmos Circuit DesignIntegrated OpticsIntegrated PhotonicsOptical InterconnectsPhotonic Integrated CircuitsSilicon PhotonicsCmos-compatible PhotonicsIntegrated Electro-optic DevicesIntegrated Photonic DevicesOptical Interconnect ArchitecturesSilicon Photonic InterconnectsSilicon Photonics For CommunicationsSilicon Photonics Integration

Abstract

We present active components developed in imec's silicon photonics platform that enable 50-Gb/s non-return-to-zero operation using CMOS compatible voltages.

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