SiGe BiCMOS technologies for high-speed and high-volume optical interconnect applications

Compact, High-Speed Mach-Zehnder Modulator With On-Chip Linear Drivers in Photonic BiCMOS Technology

“…Next generation network infrastructure relies on optical broadband systems, delivering high data rates at low power consumption and small form factors [1]. In the competition between different materials and technology approaches, silicon photonics (SiP) is one of the high potential candidates.…”

A low-noise 71-dBΩ transimpedance 31-GHz bandwidth optical receiver with automatic gain control in 0.13-µm SiGe BiCMOS

“…However, relatively poor noise performance or narrow bandwidth was achieved. Superior performance of SiGe BiCMOS over CMOS makes it possible to design high-speed circuits with high performance, while restrict power consumption to an acceptable level [20]. A couple of chipsets realized in SiGe BiCMOS were published [3,4,5,6,21,22,23,24,25,26].…”

Optical terabit transmitter and receiver based on passive polymer and InP technology for high-speed optical connectivity between datacenters

“…Optical multi-format [20], multi-carrier [21]- [22] and multi-flow [23] transmitters have been already demonstrated on various photonic platforms such as silicon [24]- [25] and InP [26]- [27] based on monolithic integration. Moreover, copackaging of optical transmitters with high speed electrical integrated circuits (ICs), such as digital-to-analog converters (DACs) or drivers relying on complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) [28]- [30] or InP [31]- [32] technology, has been demonstrated in order to enhance performance, compactness and flexibility, facilitating various types of mQAM modulation in either single-polarization (SP) or dual polarization (DP) operation.…”