The Texas A&M University System

National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC

Sam Palermo

Bryan James Kaehr

Darwin K Serkland

Michael Wood

Andrew E Hollowell

Gregory M Peake

Alejandro J Grine

Alexander Ruyack

A photonics transceiver is described herein, wherein the photonics transceiver exhibits improved areal bandwidth density and improved energy per bit consumption relative to conventional photonics transceivers. The photonics transceiver achieves an areal bandwidth density of at least 5 Tbps/mmwith an energy consumption of less than 500 fJ/bit (sum of energy consumed for both a transmitted bit and a received bit). The photonics transceiver is a multi-chip module, where chips in the multi-chip module are tightly integrated with one another. The multi-chip module includes light source, photodetector, photonics, and control/logic chips. The photonics chip includes transparent conducting oxide integrated optical modulators and multiplexers and demultiplexers based on MEMS-tunable optical ring resonators.

Multi-chip photonics transceiver

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College Station, TX, United States of America

Sam Palermo