Monolithic travelling-wave Mach-Zehnder transmitter with high-swing stacked CMOS driver

Douglas M. Gill; Jonathan E. Proesel; Chi Xiong; Jessie C. Rosenberg; Marwan H. Khater; Tymon Barwicz; Solomon Assefa; Steve Shank; Carol Reinholm; Edward Kiewra; John Ellis-Monaghan; Swetha Kamlapurkar; William Green; Yurii A. Vlasov

doi:10.1364/cleo_si.2014.sm2g.3

CLEO 2014

Conference paper

08 Jun 2014

Monolithic travelling-wave Mach-Zehnder transmitter with high-swing stacked CMOS driver

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Abstract

We present a 20 Gb/s monolithically integrated transmitter with stacked CMOS driver and periodic-loaded PN-junction Mach-Zehnder modulator fabricated in IBM's sub-100nm technology node. Transmitter extinction ratios of 10 dB at 20 Gb/s are demonstrated.

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