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Silicon light-emitting device for high speed analog-to-digital conversion

ZHENGPING ZHANG1, KAIKAI XU2,* , JUN YUAN1, YUXIN WANG1, KINGSLEY A. OGUDO3,4, CARLOS VIANA4, JEAN-LUC POLLEUX4, QI YU2, LUKAS W. SNYMAN3, YONGLU WANG1, RONGBIN HU1

Affiliation

  1. Science and Technology on Analog Integrated Circuits Laboratory, Chongqing, China 400060
  2. State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China 610054
  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa 0001
  4. University Paris-Est, ESYCOM, ESIEE Paris, Le Cnam, UPEM, Cite Descartes, Noisy-Le-Grand-Cedex, France 93162

Abstract

Silicon Photonics is an emerging field of research and technology, where nano-silicon can play a fundamental role. Visible light emitted from reverse-biased p-n junctions at highly localized regions, where avalanche breakdown occurs, can be used to realize a visible electro-optical sources in silicon by means of light-emitting diodes (Si-LEDs) is reviewed by characterizing the spectral distribution. Regarding applications, a monolithic optoelectronic integrated circuit (OEIC) for onchip optical interconnection based on standard CMOS technology is discussed. Although there are some of the present challenges with regard to the realization of suitable electro-optical elements for diverse integrated circuit applications, the type of silicon light source can be further developed into be a Si-based optical short-distance on-chip optical interconnect applications. Utilizing silicon electro-optic modulator, monolithic construction of photonics/electronics processing devices used in analog-to-digital conversion, and applications of it to ADCs, the state-of-art photonic technologies for Analog-toDigital converters (ADCs) is presented..

Keywords

Silicon, optoelectronics, Micro-optical devices, Electro-optical modulation.

Submitted at: Aug. 28, 2016
Accepted at: Sept. 29, 2016

Citation

ZHENGPING ZHANG, KAIKAI XU, JUN YUAN, YUXIN WANG, KINGSLEY A. OGUDO, CARLOS VIANA, JEAN-LUC POLLEUX, QI YU, LUKAS W. SNYMAN, YONGLU WANG, RONGBIN HU, Silicon light-emitting device for high speed analog-to-digital conversion, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 18, Iss. 9-10, pp. 737-744 (2016)