First Monolithically-Integrated Silicon CMOS Coherent Optical Receiver
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Movaghar, Ghazal; Arrunategui, Viviana; Maharry, Aaron; Chansky, Evan; Liu, Junqian; Andrade, Hector; Schow, Clint; Buckwalter, James
- Source
- 2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2023. :1-3 Mar, 2023
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical losses
Sensitivity
Equalizers
Packaging
Silicon photonics
CMOS technology
Optical receivers
- Language
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.