Optical Transmitter with Silicon Slow-Light Modulator and BiCMOS Current-Mode Driver Achieving 0.78 pJ/Bit Total Bit Energy and 0.66 mm<sup>2</sup> Footprint
The silicon photonics transmitter that combines a photonic crystal waveguide slow-light Mach-Zehnder modulator with a BiCMOS current-mode open-collector driver achieved an ultralow bit energy of <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$0.78 \text{pJ} / \text{bit}$</tex> and a compact footprint of <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$0.66 ~\text{mm}^{2}$</tex>.
Authors
- Yuriko Maegami (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2218-3912)
- Toshihiko Baba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2034-7381)
- Keisuke Kawahara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1542-057X)
- Koji Yamada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8355-7060)
- Shinsuke Hara
- Noritsugu Yamamoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3701-7319)
- Tai Tsuchizawa
Institutions
- Yokohama National University (JP)
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (JP)
- National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (JP)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-06-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.23919/oecc/psc62146.2025.11110745
- Primary Topic
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Type
- article
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