First Monolithically-Integrated Silicon CMOS Coherent Optical Receiver (Th2A.2)
Presenter: Ghazal Movaghar, UC Santa Barbara
An O-band coherent optical receiver (CORX) is integrated in a 45-nm monolithic CMOS SOI process. The CORX operates to 80 Gbps with FEC-acceptable BER at 1.2 pJ/bit energy efficiency. To our knowledge, this is the first monolithically-integrated Silicon CMOS CORX.
Authors:Ghazal Movaghar, UC Santa Barbara / Viviana Arrunategui, UC Santa Barbara / Aaron Maharry, UC Santa Barbara / Evan Chansky, UC Santa Barbara / Junqian Liu, UC Santa Barbara / Hector Andrade, UC Santa Barbara / Clint Schow, UC Santa Barbara / James Buckwalter, UC Santa Barbara