Optical transmitters

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A 1.54-pJ/b 64-Gb/s 16-QAM Intradyne Coherent Optical Receiver in 28-nm CMOS

A 1.54-pJ/b 64-Gb/s 16-QAM Intradyne Coherent Optical Receiver in 28-nm CMOS 150 150
Author(s): Ahmed E. Abdelrahman, Mohamed Badr Younis, Mohamed Osama Selim, Mohamed Saad Aly, Mahmoud A. Khalil, Pavan Kumar Hanumolu

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The rapid growth of data-intensive applications in modern data centers is driving demand for scalable, high-speed, and energy-efficient optical interconnects. Traditional noncoherent modulation schemes, such as pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), are reaching their scalability limits at higher data rates, making coherent detection increasingly attractive due to its higher spectral efficiency. …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 13
Year of Publication: 2025
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3635729
Publisher: IEEE

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An 800GbE PAM-4 PHY Transceiver for 42 dB Copper and Direct-Drive Optical Applications in 7 nm

An 800GbE PAM-4 PHY Transceiver for 42 dB Copper and Direct-Drive Optical Applications in 7 nm 150 150
Author(s): Chang Liu, Burak Catli, Yong Liu, Anand Vasani, Guansheng Li, Kun Chuai, Lakshmi Rao, Yang Liu, Xin Meng, Jiawen Zhang, Tim He, Batu Dayanik, Vadim Milirud, Meisam Honarvar Nazari, Hyo Gyuem Rhew, Derui Kong, Arvindh Iyer, Nan Wang, Alireza Nilchi, Aminghasem Safarian, Ray Wang, Hyung-Joon Jeon, Xiaochen Yang, Boyu Hu, Jerry Han, Adesh Garg, Kumar Thasari, Heng Zhang, Namik Kocaman, Ali Nazemi, Delong Cui, Afshin Momtaz, Jun Cao

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This work presents a low power DSP-based single-chip 800GbE PAM-4 PHY transceiver in 7 nm process capable of driving eight lanes of up to 112-Gb/s. It supports both electrical and optical links with monolithic integrated laser driver enabling direct-drive PAM-4 output capability for EML and silicon photonics. The transceiver supports 42 …

Published in: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
Page(s): 281 – 284
Year of Publication: 2025
Electronic ISSN: 2573-9603
DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2025.3608134
Publisher: IEEE

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A 4 × 50 Gb/s 2.9-pJ/b NRZ VCSEL-Based Co-Packaged Optical Link With Fiber Termination

A 4 × 50 Gb/s 2.9-pJ/b NRZ VCSEL-Based Co-Packaged Optical Link With Fiber Termination 150 150
Author(s): Sashank Krishnamurthy, Susnata Mondal, Junyi Qiu, Joseph Kennedy, Soumya Bose, Tolga Acikalin, Shuhei Yamada, James Jaussi, Mozhgan Mansuri

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A four-channel vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-based co-packaged optical (CPO) transceiver (TRX) is demonstrated, integrating a photodiode (PD) array, a trans-impedance amplifier front-end integrated circuit (TIA-FE IC), an electrical receiver (RX) IC, and optical fiber termination on a single package on the receive side. The transmitter (TX) counterpart incorporates …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 16
Year of Publication: 2025
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3600662
Publisher: IEEE

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