50 GBaud QPSK 0.98 pJ/bit Receiver in 45 nm CMOS and 90 nm Silicon Photonics
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Andrade, Hector; Xia, Yujie; Maharry, Aaron; Valenzuela, Luis; Buckwalter, James F.; Schow, Clint L.
- Source
- 2021 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Optical Communication (ECOC), 2021 European Conference on. :1-4 Sep, 2021
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Phase shift keying
Europe
Receivers
Silicon photonics
CMOS process
Optical fiber communication
Next generation networking
- Language
Low-power O-band receivers are required for next-generation coherent intra-datacenter interconnects. In this paper, a 0.98 pJ/bit QPSK receiver using a 45 nm CMOS process and a 90 nm Silicon Photonics (SiP) process is demonstrated at up to 50 GBaud.