Open AccessHigh‐Speed Near Infrared Optical Receivers Based on Ge Waveguide Photodetectors Integrated in a CMOS Process
Author(s) -
G. Masini,
Subal Sahni,
Giovanni Capellini,
Jeremy Witzens,
Cary Gunn
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
advances in optical technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.124
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1687-6407
pISSN - 1687-6393
DOI - 10.1155/2008/196572
Subject(s) - photodetector , cmos , infrared , process (computing) , optoelectronics , materials science , waveguide , optics , computer science , physics , operating system
We discuss our approach to monolithic intergration of Ge photodectors with CMOS electronics for high-speed optical transceivers. Receivers based on Ge waveguide photodetectors achieve a sensitivity of −14.2 dBm (10−12 bit error rate (BER)) at 10 Gbps and 1550 nm
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