A 25Gb/s, 520mW, 6.4Vpp Silicon-Photonic Mach-Zehnder
This work presents a 25Gb/s silicon-photonic MZM driver designed in a standard 65nm-CMOS process, which is then co-packaged with an 180nm SOI-CMOS MZ modulator.
Sam Palermo Analog & Mixed-Signal Center Texas A&M University.
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This work presents a 25Gb/s silicon-photonic MZM driver designed in a standard 65nm-CMOS process, which is then co-packaged with an 180nm SOI-CMOS MZ modulator.
Abstract— A voltage mode modulator driver is proposed in the TSMC 65nm low power CMOS process. In the electrical testing, the driver itself can achieve a bit rate of 40Gb/s with the single-ended output
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