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Imec Enhances Silicon Photonics Platform

Now can support 50Gb/s non-return-to-zero optical lane rates.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

At OFC 2016, imec presents performance improvements of various key building blocks of its wafer-scale integrated silicon photonics platform (iSiPP).   The new results expand imec’s iSiPP device portfolio to support 50Gb/s non-return-to-zero (NRZ) lane rates, and are an important milestone for the realization of high data rate silicon integrated optical interconnects targeting high density, high bandwidth, low power telecom and datacom transceivers, as well as for low cost large volume applicat...

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