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Optical interconnect transmitter based on guided-wave silicon optical bench

2012; Optica Publishing Group; Volume: 20; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1364/oe.20.010382

1094-4087

Po-Kuan Shen, Chin‐Ta Chen, Chia-Chi Chang, Hsu-Liang Hsiao, Yen-Chung Chang, Sheng-Long Li, Ho-yen Tsai, Hsiao-Chin Lan, Yun-Chih Lee, Mount-Learn Wu,

Photonic Crystals and Applications

An optical interconnect transmitter based on guided-wave silicon optical bench is demonstrated. The guided-wave silicon optical bench (GW-SiOB) is developed on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. The three-dimensional guided-wave optical paths on the silicon optical bench are realized using trapezoidal waveguides monolithically integrated with 45° micro-reflectors. Such three-dimensional guided-w ave optical paths of SiOB would simplify and shrink the intra-chip optical interconnects located on a SOI substrate. The clearly open eye patterns operated at a data rate of 5 Gbps verifies the proposed GW-SiOB is suitable for intra-chip optical interconnects.