A 137-mW, 4 ch × 25-Gbps Low-Power Compact Transmitter Flip-Chip-Bonded 1.3-μm LD-Array-on-Si

A low-power compact 4-channel transmitter consisting of a 65-nm CMOS cascode shunt LD driver and flip-chip-bonded 1.3-μm LD-array-on-Si achieves 25-Gbps 2-km-long SSMF error-free operation for each channel, with power consumption of 1.37 mW/Gbps.