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Speed and scalability are the two main prerequisites if we want to meet our exploding data-rate needs. At the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) in Glasgow, a team of researchers from IDLab, an imec research group at Ghent University, presents an optical receiver achieving a gross data rate of 200 Gbps. Their approach, combining a SiGe BiCMOS traveling-wave electronics integrated circuit and a Silicon Photonics Germanium photodetector, offers both speed and scalability, the researchers say<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The need for speed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From artificial intelligence to cloud computing and 5G: data-intensive applications are finding their way into different industries and many aspects of our daily lives. To keep up with today\u2019s and especially tomorrow\u2019s data-processing demands, data centers will need optical communication networks that perform at higher and higher speeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCurrently, the most performant optical datacom transceivers operate at speeds up to 800 Gbps, using 8 x 100 Gbps channels, but the field is envisioning doubling the channel capacity to 200 Gbps to reduce the transceiver complexity, cost, and power consumption while improving manufacturing yield,\u201d says Peter Ossieur, program manager for high-speed transceivers at imec\u2019s IDLab and professor at Ghent University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast and scalable<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ossieur is leading a team of researchers working towards high-speed integrated circuits for photonics applications. His team has now achieved a gross data rate of 200 Gbps by co-integrating a traveling-wave SiGe BiCMOS trans-impedance amplifier with a silicon photonics Ge photodetector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from the speed, mainstream SiGe BiCMOS makes the technology more scalable and, therefore, affordable. \u201cAn alternative to reach such speeds is InP electronics, which is a more expensive and less scalable technology,\u201d says Ossieur. \u201cSiGe BiCMOS allows us to integrate more functionalities, and the chips can also be manufactured at higher volumes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next generation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If optical transceivers are to keep up with exploding data rates, all building blocks need to handle higher speeds. The team demonstrates their result in a silicon photonics Ge photodetector setup from imec\u2019s integrated silicon photonics platform (iSiPP), targeted to the telecom, datacom, and medical diagnostics industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joris Van Campenhout, fellow and program director of optical I\/O at imec, says the new optical receiver represents one of the many steps imec is taking to ready its silicon photonics platforms for demanding 200Gbps-and-beyond applications. \u201cThese latest results represent one more data point showcasing the capability of imec\u2019s silicon photonics platform (iSiPP) to operate at lane rates of 200Gbps, a key requirement for upcoming pluggable and co-packaged optics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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