High-efficiency compact optical transmitter with a total bit energy of 0.78 pJ/bit including silicon slow-light modulator and open-collector current-mode driver

Keisuke Kawahara, Tai Tsuchizawa, Noritsugu Yamamoto +4

Increasing datacenter demands require power-efficient optical interconnects. However, a conventional standard transmitter using a silicon rib-waveguide Mach-Zehnder modulator and v…