Mackenzie A. Van Camp, Solomon Assefa, et al.
Optics Express
We present a 16-Gb/s transmitter composed of a stacked voltage-mode CMOS driver and periodic-loaded reverse biased pn junction Mach-Zehnder modulator. The transmitter shows 9-dB extinction ratio and 10.3-pJ/bit power consumption and operates with 1.3 μm light. Penalties as low as 0.5 dB were seen as compared to a 25-Gb/s LiNbO3 transmitter with both a monolithic metal-semiconductor-metal receiver and a reference receiver at 16-Gb/s operation. We also present an analytic expression for relative transmitter penalty (RTP), which allows one to quickly assess the system impact of design parameters such as peak-to-peak modulator drive voltage, modulator figure of merit, and transmitter extinction ratio to determine the circumstances under which a stacked CMOS cascode driver is desirable.
Mackenzie A. Van Camp, Solomon Assefa, et al.
Optics Express
Nicolas Dupuis, Benjamin G. Lee, et al.
Journal of Lightwave Technology
T.N. Huynh, Nicolas Dupuis, et al.
Journal of Lightwave Technology
Jessie Rosenberg, William M. J. Green, et al.
IPC 2013