Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Silicon Photonics and Linear Drive (Non-Retimed) Electric-Optic-Electrical Links

Last updated on 4/19/23

This post is really a listing of resources for Silicon Photonics and Linear Drive Links. 

Linear Drive Links

  • Samtec + Alphawave demonstration at DesignCon 2022
    • https://blog.samtec.com/post/linear-direct-drive-proof-of-concept-can-support-100-g-signaling/
    • This is a demonstration of a linear drive system
  • Serialink Systems webinar to IPEC
    • Great presentation.
    • https://www.ipec-std.org/11243.html
Silicon Photonics:
  • Silicon photonics design, from devices to systems, book by Lukas Chrostowski


Dan-Xia Xu, Jens H Schmid, Graham T Reed, Goran Z Mashanovich, David J Thomson, Milos Nedeljkovic, Xia Chen, Dries Van Thourhout, Shahram Keyvaninia, Shankar K Selvaraja, "Silicon photonic integration platform-have we found the sweet spot?", Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2014

https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/367864/1/__userfiles.soton.ac.uk_Users_nl2_mydesktop_Slabakova_Chemistry_articles_Silicon%2520photonic%2520integration%2520platform_revised_final_2.pdf
  • Why 220 nm silicon thickness?
  • MPW = multi project wafers, i.e. shared wafers
  • "Is there a ‘sweet spot’ in the silicon layer thickness that enables optimizing the performance of devices, minimizing fabrication complexities, and maximizing tolerances to the inevitable variations in fabrication?"
  • "monolithic silicon carrier-depletion modulators"