1.9-pJ/bit 0.5-mm2 High-Speed Optical Transmitter including Silicon Slow-Light Modulator and Current-Mode BiCMOS Driver

A high-speed optical transmitter including a silicon slow-light Mach-Zehnder modulator and a current-mode BiCMOS driver was EO co-designed and integrated. We experimentally achieved a 1.9-pJ/bit total efficiency and a 0.5-mm(exp 2) footprint.