title: Optical interconnect transmitter based on guided-wave silicon optical bench.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Optics and Photonics, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan, 32001, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Po-Kuan
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Chin-Ta
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Chia-Chi
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Hsu-Liang
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Hsiao
authors.forename: Yen-Chung
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Sheng-Long
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ho-Yen
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Hsiao-Chin
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Lan
authors.forename: Yun-Chih
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Mount-Learn
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D012825:Silicon / Q000737:chemistry*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D012825:Silicon