Optical Interconnects

Selected List of Publications

100. D. A. B. Miller, "Optics for low-energy communication inside digital processors: quantum detectors, sources, and modulators as efficient impedance converters," Optics Letters, 14, 146-148, (1989).

174. K. W. Goossen, J. A. Walker, L. A. D'Asaro, B. Tseng, R. Leibenguth, D. Kossives, D. D. Bacon, D. Dahringer, L. M. F. Chirovsky, A. L. Lentine, D. A. B. Miller "GaAs MQW Modulators Integrated with Silicon CMOS" IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 7, 360-362, 1995.

176. E. A. De Souza, M. C. Nuss, W. H. Knox, and D. A. B. Miller, "Wavelength-division multiplexing with femtosecond pulses," Optics Letters, 20, 1166-1168 (1995).

177. A. V. Krishnamoorthy, A. L. Lentine, K. W. Goossen, J. A. Walker, T. K. Woodward, J. E. Ford, G. F. Aplin, L. A. D'Asaro, S. P. Hui, B. Tseng, R. Leibenguth, D. Kossives, D. Dahringer, L. M. F. Chirovsky, D. A. B. Miller, "3-D integration of MQW modulators over active submicron CMOS circuits: 375 Mb/s transimpedance receiver-transmitter circuit," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 7, 1288-1290 (1995).

178. A. V. Krishnamoorthy, T. K. Woodward, R. A. Novotny, K. W. Goossen, J. A. Walker, A. L. Lentine, L. A. D'Asaro, S. P. Hui, B. Tseng, R. Leibenguth, D. Kossives, D. Dahringer, L. M. F. Chirovsky, G. F. Aplin, R. G. Rozier, F. E. Kiamilev, D. A. A. Miller "Ring oscillators with optical and electrical readout based on hybrid GaAs MQW modulators bonded to 0.8 um silicon VLSI circuits" Electronics Letters, 31, 1917-1918 (1995).

179. A. L. Lentine, K. W. Goossen, J. A. Walker, L. M. F. Chirovsky, L. A. D'Asaro, S. P. Hui, B. T. Tseng, R. E. Leibenguth, D. P. Kossives, D. W. Dahringer, D. D. Bacon, T. K. Woodward, D. A. B. Miller, "Arrays of Optoelectronic Switching Nodes Comprised of Flip-Chip-Bonded MQW Modulators and Detectors on Silicon CMOS Circuitry" IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 8, 221-223 (1996).

182. Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy and David A. B. Miller, "Scaling Optoelectronic-VLSI Circuits into the 21^st Century: A Technology Roadmap," IEEE J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 2 (1), 55-76 (April 1996).

183. David A. B. Miller,"Dense Optical Interconnections for Silicon Electronics," in Trends in Optics: Research, Developments, and Applications, Vol. 3, 207-222, Ed: A. Consortini (Int’l Commission for Optics, Academic Press, 1996).

184. D. A. B. Miller and H. M. Özaktas, "Limit to the Bit-Rate Capacity of Electrical Interconnects from the Aspect Ratio of the System Architecture," Special Issue on Parallel Computing with Optical Interconnects, J. Parallel and Distributed Computing 41, 4252 (1997).

186. L. Boivin, M. C. Nuss, J. Shah, D. A. B. Miller, and H. A. Haus, "Receiver Sensitivity Improvement by Impulsive Coding," IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 9 (5), 684-686 (May 1997).

187. Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy and David A. B. Miller, "Firehose Architectures for Free-Space Optically Interconnected VLSI Circuits," J. Parallel and Distributed Computing 41, 109-114 (1997).

189. D. A. B. Miller, "Physical Reasons for Optical Interconnection," Special Issue on Smart Pixels, Int’l J. Optoelectronics 11 (3), 155-168 (1997).

191. D. A. B. Miller, "Dense Two-Dimensional Integration of Optoelectronics and Electronics for Interconnections," presented at the Critical Reviews Conference of SPIE’s Symp. on Photonics West, Optoelectronics ’98, San Jose, CA (January 24-30, 1998). Published in Heterogeneous Integration: Systems on a Chip, Anis Husain and Mahmoud Fallahi, Eds. SPIE Critical Reviews of Optical Engineering, Vol. CR70 (SPIE, Bellingham, 1998), 80-109.

199. D. A. B. Miller, "Optics for Digital Information Processing," in Semiconductor Quantum Optoelectronics, eds. A. Miller, M. Ebrahimzadeh, and D. M. Finlayson, Proceedings of the Fiftieth Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, St. Andrews, June 1998 (Institute of Physics, Bristol, 1999), pp 433-461

202. Gordon A. Keeler, Bianca E. Nelson, Diwakar Agarwal, and David A. B. Miller, "Optical Interconnects Using Short Optical Pulses," Presented at the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Twelfth Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (November 8-11, 1999). Paper ThT5.

204. Diwakar Agarwal, Gordon A. Keeler, Bianca E. Nelson, and David A. B. Miller," Wavelength Division Multiplexed Optical Interconnects Using Femtosecond Optical Pulses," Presented at the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Twelfth Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (November 8-11, 1999). Paper ThT4.

205. D. A. B. Miller, "Rationale and Challenges for Optical Interconnects to Electronic Chips," Proc. IEEE 88, 728-749 (2000)

208. G. A. Keeler, B. E. Nelson, D. Agarwal, and D. A. B. Miller, "Skew and jitter removal using short optical pulses for optical interconnection," IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. , 12, 714 -716 (2000)

210.   D. A. B. Miller, "Optical Interconnects to Silicon", IEEE J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 6, 1312-1317 (2000)

226.   C. Debaes, D. Agarwal, A. Bhatnagar, H. Thienpont, and D. A. B. Miller, "High-Impedance High-Frequency Silicon Detector Response for Precise Receiverless Optical Clock Injection," in SPIE Photonics West 2002 Meeting, San Jose, California, Proc. SPIE Vol. 4654, 78-88  (2002).

230.   G.A. Keeler, N.C. Helman, P. Atanackovic, and D. A. B. Miller, "Cavity Resonance Tuning of Asymmetric Fabry-Perot MQW Modulators Following Flip-Chip Bonding to Silicon CMOS," in Optics in Computing 2002, Taipei, Taiwan (April 8-11, 2002) Paper OWA2

239. G. A. Keeler, D. Agarwal, C. Debaes, B. E. Nelson, N. C. Helman, H. Thienpont, and D. A. B. Miller, "Optical pump-probe measurements of the latency of silicon CMOS optical interconnects," IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 14, 1214-1216 (2002)

241. C. Debaes, A. Bhatnagar, D. Agarwal, R. Chen, G. A. Keeler, N. C. Helman, H. Thienpont, and D. A. B. Miller, "Receiver-less Optical Clock Injection for Clock Distribution Networks," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 9, 400-409 (2003)

242. B. E. Nelson, G. A. Keeler, D. Agarwal, N. C. Helman, and D. A. B. Miller, "Wavelength Division Multiplexed Optical Interconnect Using Short Pulses," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 9, 486-491 (2003)

244. G. A. Keeler, B. E. Nelson, D. Agarwal, C. Debaes, N. C. Helman, A. Bhatnagar, and D. A. B. Miller, "The Benefits of Ultrashort Optical Pulses in Optically-Interconnected Systems," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 9, 477-485 (2003)

254.  Diwakar Agarwal, Gordon A. Keeler, Christof Debaes, Bianca E. Nelson, Noah C. Helman, and David A. B. Miller, "Latency Reduction in Optical Interconnects Using Short Optical Pulses," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 9, 410-418 (2003)

274. A. Bhatnagar, C. Debaes, H. Thienpont, and D. A. B. Miller, "Receiverless detection schemes for optical clock distribution," (SPIE Photonics West: Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices, 25-29 Jan. 2004, San Jose, CA, USA) Proc. SPIE Vol. 5359, No. 1, p. 352-9.

278.   A. Bhatnagar, S. Latif, C. Debaes, and D. A. B. Miller, "Pump-probe measurements of CMOS detector rise time in the blue,"  Journal of Lightwave Technology 22, No. 9,  p.2213-17  (Sept. 2004)

294. D. A. B. Miller, A. Bhatnagar, S. Palermo, A. Emami-Neyestanak, and M. A. Horowitz, "Opportunities for Optics in Integrated Circuits Applications," International Solid State Circuits Conference, 2005, Digest of Technical Papers, IEEE 2005, Paper 4.6, Pages  86-87

304. Yu-Hsuan Kuo, Yong-Kyu Lee, Yangsi Ge, Shen Ren, Jonathan E. Roth, Theodore I. Kamins, David A. B. Miller, and James S. Harris, "Strong quantum-confined Stark effect in germanium quantum-well structures on silicon," Nature 437, 1334-1336 (2005) (27 October 2005|doi:10.1038/nature04304), 

315.   Y.-H. Kuo, Y. K. Lee, Y. Ge, S. Ren, J. E. Roth, T. I. Kamins, D. A. B. Miller, and J. S. Harris Jr., "Quantum-Confined Stark Effect in Ge/SiGe Quantum Wells on Si for Optical Modulators ," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 12, 1503-1513 (2006)

333.   J. E. Roth, O. Fidaner, R. K. Schaevitz, Y. -H. Kuo, T. I. Kamins, J. S. Harris, and D. A. B. Miller, "Optical modulator on silicon employing germanium quantum wells," Opt. Express 15, 5851-5859 (2007)\

335.   D. A. B. Miller, "Germanium Quantum Wells for High-Performance Modulators in Silicon Photonics," Photonics Spectra, September 2007, pp. 80 – 83

338. A. K. Okyay, A. J. Pethe, D. Kuzum, S. Latif, D. A. Miller, and K. C. Saraswat, "SiGe optoelectronic metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor," Opt. Lett. 32, 2022-2024 (2007)

353.        Dany-Sebastien Ly-Gagnon, Sukru Ekin Kocabas, David A.B. Miller, “Characteristic Impedance Model for Plasmonic Metal Slot Waveguides,” IEEE J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Issue on Surface Plasmon Photonics and Materials, 14 (6), 1473 – 1478 (2008) Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.917534

354.   David A. B. Miller, "The Fundamental Limit to Optical Components," Optics and Photonics News, Optics in 2007 Special Issue, December 2007, p. 27

355. J. E. Roth, S. Palermo, N. C. Helman, D. P. Bour, D. A. B. Miller, and M. Horowitz, “An Optical Interconnect Transceiver at 1550 nm Using Low-Voltage Electroabsorption Modulators Directly Integrated to CMOS,” J. Lightwave Technol. 25, 3739 – 3747 (2007)

356. J. E. Roth, O. Fidaner, E. H. Edwards, R. K. Schaevitz, Y.-H. Kuo, N. C. Helman, T. I. Kamins, J. S. Harris, and D. A. B. Miller, “C-band side-entry Ge quantum-well electroabsorption modulator on SOI operating at 1 V swing,” Electronics Lett. 44, 49 – 50 (2008)

357. R. K. Schaevitz, J. E. Roth, S. Ren, O. Fidaner, and D. A. B. Miller, “Material Properties in Si-Ge/Ge Quantum Wells,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 14, 1082-1089 (2008)

358. Liang Tang, Sukru Ekin Kocabas, Salman Latif, Ali K. Okyay, Dany-Sebastien Ly-Gagnon, Krishna C. Saraswat and David A. B. Miller, “Nanometre-Scale Germanium Photodetector Enhanced by a Near-Infrared Dipole Antenna,” Nature Photonics 2, 226 – 229 (2008) doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.30

359.        Sukru Ekin Kocabas, Georgios Veronis, David A. B. Miller, and Shanhui Fan, "Transmission Line and Equivalent Circuit Models for Plasmonic Waveguide Components," IEEE J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Special Issue on Surface Plasmon Photonics and Plasmonics, 14 (6), 1462‑1472 (Dec 2008). Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.924431.

369.  S. E. Kocabas, G. Veronis, D. A. B. Miller, and S. H. Fan, “Modal Analysis and Coupling in Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguides,” Phys. Rev. B 79, 035120 (2009) URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v79/e035120, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.035120 arXiv:0809.2850v2 [physics.optics]

370. D. A. B. Miller, “Device Requirements for Optical Interconnects to Silicon Chips,” Proc. IEEE 97, 1166-1185 (2009)

371. S. Latif, S. E. Kocabas, L. Tang, C. Debaes & D. A. B. Miller, “Low capacitance CMOS silicon photodetectors for optical clock injection”, Appl. Phys. A – Materials Science and Processing 95, 1129-1135 (2009) 

372. L. Tang, S. Latif, and D. A. B. Miller, “Plasmonic device in silicon CMOS,” Electronics Lett. 45, 706 – 708 (2009)     

373. G. Veronis, Z. F. Yu, S. E. Kocabas, D. A. B. Miller, M. L. Brongersma, and S. H. Fan, “Metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguide devices for manipulating light at the nanoscale,” Chinese Optics Letters 7, 302 – 308 (2009) 

374. Dirk Englund, Bryan Ellis, Elizabeth Edwards, Tomas Sarmiento, James S. Harris, David A. B. Miller, and Jelena Vuckovic, "Electrically controlled modulation in a photonic crystal nanocavity," Opt. Express 17, 15409-15419 (2009)

382.David A. B. Miller, "Optical interconnects to electronic chips," Appl. Opt. 49, F59-F70 (2010)

408.        J. Raja Jain, Dany-Sebastien Ly-Gagnon, Krishna C. Balram, Justin S. White, Mark L. Brongersma, David A. B. Miller, and Roger T. Howe, "Tensile-strained germanium-on-insulator substrate fabrication for silicon-compatible optoelectronics," Opt. Mater. Express 1, 1121-1126 (2011)

409.        Donguk Nam, Devanand Sukhdeo, Arunanshu Roy, Krishna Balram, Szu-Lin Cheng, Kevin Chih-Yao Huang, Ze Yuan, Mark Brongersma, Yoshio Nishi, David Miller, and Krishna Saraswat, "Strained germanium thin film membrane on silicon substrate for optoelectronics," Opt. Express 19, 25866-25872 (2011)

410. David A. B. Miller, "Energy consumption in optical modulators for interconnects," Opt. Express 20, A293-A308 (2012)