High speed and low power silicon-based receiver front-end for optical interconnect

Chen, Shen-Wen, Chiu, Po-Wei, Li, Yan-Feng, Hsu, Shawn S.H., Li, K., Thomson, D.J. and Reed, G.T. (2016) High speed and low power silicon-based receiver front-end for optical interconnect. IEEE 13th International Conference on Group IV Photonics, Shanghai, China. 24 - 26 Aug 2016. pp. 184-185 . (doi:10.1109/GROUP4.2016.7739088).

Abstract

We demonstrate an optical receiver front-end using a CMOS TIA with a germanium-on-silicon PD. The amplifier only occupies 0.09 mm 2 with 12 mW power consumption, and achieves a 27.5 GHz 3-dB bandwidth. The integrated silicon-based receiver shows well opened eye diagrams up to 20 Gb/s.

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