Scaling Optical Interconnects Beyond 400 Gb/s

We present our vision towards scaling optical interconnect signalling rates to 200 Gb/s per lane within European project plaCMOS. The concept of a monolithic integration platform combining silicon photonics, plasmonics and SiGe-BiCMOS electronics is introduced and recent progresses are reported.

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