Fully Integrated VLSI CMOS and Photonics "CMOS Photonics"

Luxtera has implemented complete photonic transceiver technology in the Hip7 0.13μm SOI CMOS process at Freescale Semiconductor, enabling optical communications directly to and from a CMOS die. With the exception of the co-packaged laser, all optical functions are implemented in using CMOS processing. The devices implemented include 10Gb/s modulators, germanium photodetectors, optical WDM filters, switches, attenuators and fiber coupling holographic lenses. To date, up to 40Gbps transmission has been demonstrated down a single fiber using four optical wavelengths, each modulated at 10Gbps.