X. Zheng,
J. E. Cunningham,
R. Ho,
J. Lexau,
G. Li,
Y. Luo,
H. Thacker,
J. Yao,
F. Liu,
D. Patil,
P. Amberg,
N. Pinckney,
P. Dong,
D. Feng,
M. Asghari,
A. Mekis,
T. Pinguet,
K. Raj,
A. V. Krishnamoorthy
We present ultra low power silicon photonic transceivers, including a 320 fJ/bit reverse biased ring modulator integrated with CMOS driver, and a 690 fJ/bit record-low power receiver with sensitivity of -18.9 dBm at 5 Gbps for bit-error-rate of 10$^textrm-12$.