A ≪5mW/Gb/s/link, 16×10Gb/s Bi-Directional Single-Chip CMOS Optical Transceiver for Board-Level Optical Interconnects

A single-chip CMOS parallel optical transceiver, or Optochip, is presented that addresses the key metrics of power consumption, density, bandwidth, and cost, to enable large-scale parallel optical links through fiber or waveguide-arrays.

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