Publications

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Conference Publications

• A 0.69-pJ/b 4x80-Gb/s MRM-Based Coherent Optical Transmitter with Time-Multiplexed Thermal Tuning
  P Zeng, D Sturm, M Rezaei, A R Nayak, S Moazeni
  IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI 2026)

   

• A 1.49 pJ/b 4-Channel 256-Gb/s MRM-Based Coherent Co-Packaged Optics with Linear Carrier Phase Recovery
  P Zeng, D Sturm, M Rezaei, A R Nayak, S Moazeni
  IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2026)

   

• A Linear MRM-based Coherent Optical Link Architecture with Integrated Closed-loop Carrier Phase Recovery
  D Sturm, M Rezaei, P Zeng, A R Nayak, S Moazeni
  Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2026)

   

• LC2PO: Linear Coherent Co-Packaged Optics for Scaling AI Compute
  S Moazeni, D Sturm, M Rezaei, P Zeng, A R Nayak
  IEEE Summer Topicals 2025 [Invited]

   

• PCM-based Non-volatile Tuning of Cryogenic Silicon Photonic Micro-ring Modulators
  U Adya, R Chen, I Chen, S Joshi, A Majumdar, M Li, S Moazeni
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2025)

   

• 25Gb/s Offset-QAM-4 Optical Transmitter using Micro-ring Modulators
  D Sturm, A Dee, S Moazeni
  Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2025)

   

• Pseudo-Sim: An Accurate Analytical Modeling Framework for Systolic Array Architectures
  D Sturm, S Moazeni
  42nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2024)

   

• ACCELERATING CASCADE CLASSIFIER TRAINING WITH GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR EDGE ML APPLICATIONS
  Abhishek Saini, S Moazeni
  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2024)

   

• DSP-Free Carrier Phase Recovery System for Laser-Forwarded Offset-QAM Coherent Optical Receivers
  M Rezaei, D Sturm, P Zeng, S Moazeni
  2024 IEEE 67th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2024

   

• OFHE: An Electro-Optical Accelerator for Discretized TFHE
  M Zheng, C Chu, Q Lou, N Youngblood, M Li, S Moazeni, L Jiang
  Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power 2024

   

• Compact and Thermally-Robust Offset-QAM Optical Transmitters Using RAMZI Modulators
  D Sturm, S Moazeni
  2024 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM), 1-2 2024

   

• An Electro-Optical Synthesizer to Generate Random Chirp Rates for Secure FMCW LiDAR Applications
  Marziyeh Rezaei, Liban Hussein, Alana Dee, Sajjad Moazeni
  IEEE RFIC June 2024 (Washignton DC).

   

• A Mixed-Signal Compute-in-Memory Architecture for Solving All-to-All Connected MAXCUT Problems with Sub-μs Time-to-Solution
  Alana M. Dee, Katherine Bennett, Sajjad Moazeni
  IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Singapore May 2024.

   

• BEOL Post-processing of Phase Change Material in Commercial Foundry Silicon Photonics
  Uthkarsh Adya, Dan Sturm, Rui Chen, Arka Majumdar, Mo Li, Sajjad Moazeni
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2024)

   

• Integration of Phase Change Material with Commercial 45nm Monolithic Silicon Photonics
  Changming Wu, Daniel Sturm, Uthkarsh Adya, Mo Li, and Sajjad Moazeni
  Accepted in the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2023)

   

• Scalable Coherent Optical Crossbar Architecture using PCM for AI Acceleration
  Daniel Sturm, Sajjad Moazeni
  Arxiv (Accepted at DATE 2023)

   

• Secure FMCW LiDAR Systems with Frequency Encryption
  Marziyeh Rezaei, Liban Hussein, Sajjad Moazeni
  6th Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES 2022)

   

• Next-generation Co-Packaged Optics for Future Disaggregated AI Systems
  Sajjad Moazeni
  OCP Future Technologies Symposium 2022 (Oct. 18)

   

• Integrated-Circuit Node for Time-Domain Near-infrared Diffuse Optical Tomography Imaging Arrays with On-chip Histogramming and Integrated VCSELs
  Sajjad Moazeni, Kevin Renehan, Eric H. Pollmann, Kenneth L. Shepard
  Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2021

   

• A Mechanically Flexible Implantable Neural Interface for Computational Imaging and Optogenetic Stimulation over 5.4x5.4mm2 FoV
  Sajjad Moazeni, Eric H. Pollmann, Vivek Boominathan, Filipe A. Cardoso, Jacob T. Robinson, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Kenneth L. Shepard
  International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2021, paper 19.2

   

• Fully Integrated Time-Gated 3D Fluorescence Imager for Deep Neural Imaging
  Jaebin Choi, Adriaan Taal, Eric Pollmann, William Meng, Sajjad Moazeni, Laurent Moreaux, Michael Roukes, Kenneth Shepard
  Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) 2019

   

• A Laser-forwarded Coherent 10Gb/s BPSK Transceiver Using Monolithic Microring Resonators in 45nm SOI CMOS
  Nandish Mehta, Sen Lin, Bozhi Yin, Sajjad Moazeni, and Vladimir Stojanović
  Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI) 2019

   

• A 40Gb/s Optical NRZ Transmitter Based on Monolithic Microring Modulators in 45nm SOI CMOS
  Sen Lin, Sajjad Moazeni, and Vladimir Stojanović
  Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI) 2018

   

• Monolithically Integrated Photonics with Silicon Nanoelectronics in Advanced Bulk CMOS Process Nodes for Next-Generation Systems-on-Chip
  Milos Popović, Fabio Pavanello, Amir Atabaki, Sajjad Moazeni, Hayk Gevorgyan, Jelena Notaros, Luca Alloatti, Mark Wade, Chen Sun, Seth Kruger, Huaiyu Meng, Kenaish Al Qubaisi, Imbert Wang, Bohan Zhang, Anatol Khilo, Christopher Baicco, Vladimir Stojanović and Rajeev Ram
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2018, paper SF2A.5.

   

• Microsecond Optical Switching Network of Processor SoCs with Optical I/O
  Sajjad Moazeni, Johannes Henriksson, Tae J. Seok, Mark T. Wade, Chen Sun, Ming C. Wu, and Vladimir Stojanović
  Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2018

   

• Monolithic Optical Transceivers in 65nm Bulk CMOS
  Amir Atabaki, Sajjad Moazeni, Fabio Pavanello, Hayk Gevorgyan, Jelena Notaros, Luca Alloatti, Mark Wade, Chen Sun, Seth Kruger, Huaiyu Meng, Kenaish Al Qubaisi, Imbert Wang, Bohan Zhang, Anatol Khilo, Christopher Baicco, Milos Popović, Vladimir Stojanović and Rajeev Ram
  Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2018

   

• Monolithic Integration of O-band Photonic Transceivers in a "Zero-change" 32nm SOI CMOS
  Sajjad Moazeni, Amir Atabaki, Dinis Cheian, Sen Lin, Rajeev J. Ram, Vladimir Stojanović
  International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) 2017, paper 24.3.

   

• Integration of Polysilicon-based Photonics in a 12-inch Wafer 65nm Bulk CMOS Process
  Sajjad Moazeni, Amir Atabaki, Fabio Pavanello, Hayk Gevorgyan, Jelena Notaros, Luca Alloatti, Mark Wade, Chen Sun, Seth Kruger, Huaiyu Meng, Kenaish Al Qubaisi, Imbert Wang, Bohan Zhang, Anatol Khilo, Christopher Baicco, Milos Popović, Rajeev Ram and Vladimir Stojanović
  5th Berkeley E3S Symposium & Steep Transistors Workshop 2017

   

• A 40Gb/s PAM-4 Transmitter Based on a Ring-Resonator Optical DAC in 45nm SOI CMOS
  Sajjad Moazeni, Sen Lin, Mark T. Wade, Luca Alloatti, Rajeev J. Ram, Milos Popović, Vladimir Stojanović
  International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2017, paper 29.3

   

• Depletion-Based Optical Modulators in a Bulk 65 nm CMOS Platform
  Fabio Pavanello, Amir Atabaki, Mark T. Wade, Luca Alloatti, Jelena Notaros, Sajjad Moazeni, Christopher Baiocco, Dan Coleman, Douglas D. Coolbaugh, Vladimir Stojanović, Rajeev J. Ram, Milos Popović
  Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2016 paper Th4H.3

   

• High-density 3D electronic-photonic integration
  Vladimir Stojanović, Krishna Settaluri, Sen Lin, Sajjad Moazeni, Erman Timurdogan, Chen Sun, Michele Moresco, Zhan Su, Yu-Hsin Chen, Gerry Leake, Douglas LaTulipe, Colin McDonough, Jeremiah Hebding, Douglas D. Coolbaugh, Michael R. Watts
  4th Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (E3S), 2015

   

• Demonstration of an Optical Chip-to-Chip Link in a 3D Integrated Electronic-Photonic Platform
  Krishna Settaluri, Sen Lin, Sajjad Moazeni, Erman Timurdogan, Chen Sun, Michele Moresco, Zhan Su, Yu-Hsin Chen, Gerry Leake, Douglas LaTulipe, Colin McDonough, Jeremiah Hebding, Douglas D. Coolbaugh, Michael R. Watts, Vladimir Stojanović
  ESSIRC 2015, Graz, Austria

   

• An Ultra Low Power 3D Integrated Intra-Chip Silicon Electronic-Photonic Link
  Erman Timurdogan, Zhan Su, Krishna Settaluri, Sen Lin, Sajjad Moazeni, Chen Sun, Gerry Leake, Douglas D. Coolbaugh, Ben Moss, Michele Moresco, Vladimir Stojanović, Michael R. Watts
  Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2015 paper Th5B.8

   

Journal Publications

• Sub-wavelength Grating Silicon to Silicon Nitride Interlayer Couplers in Commercial Foundry Silicon Photonics
  U Adya, S Moazeni
  Optics Express 2026, 34 (3)

   

• C2PO: Coherent Co-packaged Optics using offset-QAM-16 for Beyond PAM-4 Optical I/O
  D Sturm, M Rezaei, A Dee, S Moazeni
  Optics Express (OSA Journal)

   

• Non-volatile Tuning of Cryogenic Silicon Photonic Micro-ring Modulators
  U Adya, S Singhal, R Chen, I Chen, S Joshi, A Majumdar, M Li, S Moazeni
  Nature Communications, 16 (1)

   

• A DSP-Free Carrier Phase Recovery System using 16-Offset-QAM Laser Forwarded Links for 400Gb/s and Beyond
  M Rezaei, D Sturm, P Zeng, S Moazeni
  Frontiers in Communications and Networks (2025)

   

• Interleaved Resistive Microheater for Switching Phase-Change Materials Integrated in Silicon Photonics
  U Adya, R Chen, C Wu, A Majumdar, M Li, S Moazeni
  Applied Optics 64 (22)

   

• Secure FMCW LiDAR Ranging with an Electro-Optical Synthesizer at 5000 Measurements per Second
  M Rezaei, L Hussein, A Dee, S Fang, Q Lin, M Li, S Moazeni
  IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL) 2024

   

• Multi-Spectral Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging For Depth-Resolved Blood Perfusion Assessment
  L Hossein, S Moazeni
  SPIE Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) 2025

   

• A subdural CMOS optical device for bidirectional neural interfacing
  H Pollmann, H Yin, I Uguz, A Dubey, KE Wingel, JS Choi, S Moazeni, ...
  Nature Electronics 2024

   

• Post-processing of phase change material in a zero-change commercial silicon photonic process
  U Adya, D Sturm, R Chen, C Wu, A Majumdar, M Li, S Moazeni
  Optics Express 32 (16), 27552-27562, 2024

   

• Design of a Mixed-Signal Compute-in-Memory Ising Solver With Sub-s Time-to-Solution and Optimal Decaying Noise Profile
  AM Dee, D Vuong, K Bennett, S Moazeni
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Regular Papers

   

• An Integrated-Circuit Node for High-Spatiotemporal Resolution Time-Domain Near-infrared Diffuse Optical Tomography Imaging Arrays
  Sajjad Moazeni, Kevin Renehan, Eric H. Pollmann, Kenneth L. Shepard
  Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC)(Nov. 2022)

   

• Scaling up Superconducting Quantum Computers with Cryogenic RF-photonics
  Sanskriti Joshi, Sajjad Moazeni
  Arxiv

   

• A Mechanically Flexible Implantable Neural Interface for Computational Imaging and Optogenetic Stimulation over 5.4mmx5.4mm FoV
  Sajjad Moazeni, Eric H. Pollmann, Vivek Boominathan, Filipe A. Cardoso, Jacob T. Robinson, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Kenneth L. Shepard
  IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (Invited Paper) (Feb. 2022)

   

• Fully Integrated Time-Gated 3D Fluorescence Imager for Deep Neural Imaging
  J. Choi, A. J. Taal, W. L. Meng, E. H. Pollmann, J. W. Stanton, C. Lee, S. Moazeni, L. C. Moreaux, M. Roukes, K. Shepard
  IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (July 2020)

   

• CMOS and plasmonics get close (News & Views)
  Sajjad Moazeni
  Nature Electronics (June 2020)

   

• A Laser-Forwarded Coherent Transceiver in 45-nm SOI CMOS Using Monolithic Microring Resonators
  Nandish Mehta, Sen Lin, Bozhi Yin, Sajjad Moazeni, Vladimir Stojanović
  Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) (Mar. 2020)

   

• Integration of Thin-film Photonics with Silicon Nanoelectronics for Next-generation Systems-on-a-Chip
  Amir Atabaki*, Sajjad Moazeni* , Fabio Pavanello* , Hayk Gevorgyan, Jelena Notaros, Luca Alloatti, Mark Wade, Chen Sun, Seth Kruger, Huaiyu Meng, Kenaish Al Qubaisi, Imbert Wang, Bohan Zhang, Anatol Khilo, Christopher Baicco, Milos Popović, Vladimir Stojanović and Rajeev Ram (*equally contibuted)
  Nature (April 2018)

   

• A 40Gb/s PAM-4 Transmitter Based on a Ring-Resonator Optical DAC in 45nm SOI CMOS
  Sajjad Moazeni, Sen Lin, Mark T. Wade, Luca Alloatti, Rajeev J. Ram, Milos Popović, Vladimir Stojanović
  (Invited Paper) Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 3503-3516. (Dec. 2017)

   

• Monolithic Silicon-Photonic Platforms in State-of-the-art CMOS SOI Processes
  Vladimir Stojanović, Milos Popović, Rajeev J. Ram, Sen Lin, Sajjad Moazeni, Mark Wade, Chen Sun, Luca Alloatti, Amir Atabaki, Fabio Pavanello, Nandish Mehta, Pavan Bhargava
  (Invited Review Paper) Opt. Express 26, 13106-13121 (2018)

   

• Electronic-Photonic Co-Optimization of High-Speed Silicon Photonic Transmitters
  Sen Lin, Sajjad Moazeni, Krishna Settaluri, Vladimir Stojanović
  Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT),vol. 35, no. 21, pp. 4766-4780, (Nov.1, 2017).

   

• A Generalization of CDMA Systems and Derivation of New Bounds on the Sum Capacity
  Shayan Dashmiz, Mohammad Reza Takapoui, Sajjad Moazeni, Mehrdad Moharrami, Melika Abolhasani, Farokh Marvasti
  IET Communications, Volume 8, Issue 2, 23 Jan 2014, p. 153-162