A 25Gb/s, 520mW, 6.4Vpp Silicon-Photonic Mach-Zehnder Modulator with distributed driver in CMOS

A 25Gb/s heterogeneously-integrated Silicon-Photonic transmitter is designed entirely in CMOS, consisting of a high-swing driver wire-bonded to a MZ modulator. Measurement results demonstrate clean optical eye diagrams with > 4dB extinction ratio while consuming 0.52W.

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