High-speed and low-power optical DAC transmitter using all-silicon lumped segmented modulator directly driven by CMOS inverter driver

Abstract

We fabricated a 2×2-bit optical DAC transmitter using silicon segmented modulators and CMOS drivers. Highest symbol rates of 56Gbaud PAM4 and 50Gbaud 16QAM were achieved with transmitter density higher than 300Gbps/mm2 among optical DAC transmitters.