9 July 2022 Polymer waveguide photonic interconnect for multichip communications-based heterogeneous integration
Rakesh M. Krishna, Rui Zhang, Siddharth Ravichandran, Tianren Fan, Amir H. Hosseinnia, Jose Lopez-Ninantay, Fuhan Liu, Mohan Kathaperumal, Madhavan Swaminathan, Ali Adibi
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Abstract

An on-package optical interconnect design is proposed for the first time, with silicon photonics in conjunction with the polymer-on-glass interposer technology to enable heterogeneous integration. Glass substrates are used for low-cost, high reliability packaging while silicon photonics allows for high-speed modulation and wavelength division multiplexing within a small footprint. By combining silicon-photonic and benzo-cyclobutene-on-glass interposer technologies, we propose a scalable on-package photonic interconnect that can provide data rates >224  Gb  /  s for medium-reach links. Our proposed interconnect considers microring modulators and high-speed detectors available in photonic-foundry processes. We present the power-budget analysis to identify the key limiting parameters toward achieving an energy consumption of   <  1  pJ  /  bit.

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Rakesh M. Krishna, Rui Zhang, Siddharth Ravichandran, Tianren Fan, Amir H. Hosseinnia, Jose Lopez-Ninantay, Fuhan Liu, Mohan Kathaperumal, Madhavan Swaminathan, and Ali Adibi "Polymer waveguide photonic interconnect for multichip communications-based heterogeneous integration," Journal of Nanophotonics 16(3), 036002 (9 July 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.16.036002
Received: 14 January 2022; Accepted: 22 June 2022; Published: 9 July 2022
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KEYWORDS
Waveguides

Silicon

Optical interconnects

Polymers

Modulators

Polymer multimode waveguides

Silicon photonics

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