M. Raj, Y. Frans, Sai Lalith Chaitanya Ambatipudi, David Mahashin, P. Heyn, S. Balakrishnan, J. Campenhout, Jimmy Grayson, M. Epitaux, Ken Chang
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Abstract
This work presents an Electro-Absorption Modulator (EAM) based single-mode 50Gb/s NRZ optical link in 16nm FinFET. The TX uses T-coil based over-peaking to improve modulation efficiency and relax TIA’s bandwidth and noise requirement. The RX uses a 3-stage TIA with T-coils to improve BW. The link sensitivity is -10.9dBm OMA at BER $\lt 10^{-12}$ and it consumes 4.31pJ/bit at 50Gb/s with 2dB link margin.