A Monolithically-Integrated Chip-to-Chip Optical Link in Bulk CMOS Chen Sun S t

Abstract

Silicon-photonics is an emerging techno logy that can overcome the tradeoffs faced by traditional electrical I/O. Due to ballooning development costs for advanced CMOS nodes, however, widespread adoption necessitates seam less photonics in- tegration into mainstream proce sses, with as few process changes as possible. In this work, we demonstrate a silicon-photonic link with optical devices and electronics integrat ed on the same chip i na0 . 1 8µ mb u l kC M O Sm e m o r yp e r i p h e r yp r o