Title
Highly integrated wavelength-locked Si photonic ring transmitter using direct monitoring of drop-port OMA.
Abstract
A highly integrated wavelength locking control circuit is presented. It locks the 4Gbps CMOS-Si photonics ring-based transmitter at the maximum optical modulation amplitude (OMA). The control circuit uses direct monitoring of drop-port OMA and a dither-based slope quantizer. It is low-noise and low-offset. Resultantly, a 0.4% (2.2pm, 0.03 degrees C) locking accuracy is achieved with only 15 mu A of pk-pk OMA photocurrent at the drop port. This will permit weakly coupled drop ports in a Si ring wavelength-division multiplexed transmitter, inducing OMA penalty of only 2% at the corresponding through ports. The control circuit is also potentially low-power of 234 mu W (59fJ/bit).
Year
Venue
Keywords
2017
ESSCIRC 2017 - 43RD IEEE EUROPEAN SOLID STATE CIRCUITS CONFERENCE
Wavelength locking,thermal stabilization,optical interconnects,Si photonics,Si ring modulator,OMA,drop port
Field
DocType
Citations 
Optical fiber,Transmitter,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Dither,Quantization (signal processing),Multiplexing,Optical modulation amplitude,Photonics,Wavelength
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Saurabh Agarwal116211.26
Mark Ingels215726.53
Marianna Pantouvaki365.57
Michiel Steyaert4599165.88
p absil553.88
Joris Van Campenhout62710.59