An Error-free 1 Tbps WDM Optical I/O Chiplet and Multi-wavelength Multi-port Laser
Mark T. Wade, Erik Anderson, Shahab Ardalan, Woorham Bae, Behrooz Beheshtian, Sidney Buchbinder, Ke Chang, Pen-Shan Chao, Haritha Eachempatti, John Frey, E. Jan, Austin Katzin, Anatol Khilo, Derek Kita, Uma Krishnamoorthy, Chunyu Li, He‐Zuo Lü, Fernando Luna, C. Madden, Layla Okada, Mehul G.Patel, C. Ramamurthy, Manan Raval, Radek Roucka, K. Robberson, Michael Rust, Derek Van Orden, Rui Zeng, M. Zhang, Vladimir Stojanović, Forrest Sedgwick, Roy Meade, Nicholas Chan, John M. Fini, B. Kim, S. Liu, Cong Zhang, Daniel Jeong, Pavan Bhargava, M.N. Sysak, Chi‐Kuang Sun
Abstract
We demonstrate 128 Gbps/port (8-λ × 16 Gbps/λ) natively error-free transmission across eight optical ports using a 8-port, 8-λ/port WDM remote laser source and a pair of monolithically integrated CMOS optical I/O chiplets with 4.96-5.56 pJ/bit optical Tx+Rx chiplet energy efficiency.