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Photonics transceiver to enable 'cost effective' high density fibre links

In a joint presentation at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), imec, Tyndall National Institute, University of Leuven and Ghent University described a 4 x 20Gbit/s wavelength division multiplexing hybrid CMOS silicon photonics transceiver. The development, say the partners, paves the way to cost effective, high density single mode optical fibre links.

The device comprises a silicon photonics chip, flip chip integrated with a low power 40nm CMOS chip. The photonics chip, fabricated on imec's 25Gbit/s Silicon Photonics Platform, has an array of four 25Gbit/s ring modulators, coupled to a common bus waveguide to allow WDM transmission. On the receive side, a ring based demultiplexing filter with a channel spacing of 300GHz is connected to an array of four 25Gbit/s Ge waveguide photodetectors.

The CMOS chip includes four differential 20Gbit/s ring modulator drivers and four 20Gbit/s transimpedance amplifiers. A 12 channel single mode fibre array is packaged onto the chip's grating coupler array, using a planar approach developed at Tyndall National Institute.

According to the partners, error free operation was demonstrated in a 20Gbit/s loop-back experiment for all four WDM channels, as well as with two channels running together. Dynamic power consumption was found to be less than 2pJ/bit. The partners claim the transceiver can be further scaled to higher bandwidth capacity by adopting more advanced CMOS technology and by adding more WDM channels.

Author
Graham Pitcher

Source:  www.newelectronics.co.uk