An Ultra-Low Power All CMOS Si Photonic Transmitter
Xuezhe Zheng,
Jon Lexau,
Ying luo,
Hiren Thacker,
Thierry Pinguet,
Attila Mekis,
Guoliang Li,
Jing Shi,
Philip Amberg,
Nathaniel Pinckney,
Kannan Raj,
Ron Ho,
John E. Cunningham,
Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy
We report the first 400fJ/bit all-CMOS silicon photonic transmitter made of CMOS depletion ring modulator flip-chip integrated with CMOS driver, and demonstrated error-free 5Gbps transmission of over 1.5Pbits of data without closed-loop ring resonance tuning.