A 96Gb/s-Throughput Transceiver for Short-Distance Parallel Optical Links

Author

Goswami, Sushmit ; Copani, Tino ; Jain, Anuj ; Karaki, Habib ; Vermeire, Bert ; Barnaby, Hugh J. ; Fetzer, Greg ; Vercillo, Rick ; Kiaei, Sayfe

Author_Institution

Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

fYear

2008

fDate

3-7 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

230

Lastpage

609

Abstract

This work reports 96Gb/s throughput transceiver modules, consisting of 64 parallel channels operated at 1.5Gb/s each, implemented on a 75 mum pitch in a 0.35 mum SiGe BiCMOS technology. The adopted technology provides high bulk resistivity, which is desirable for low channel crosstalk. The 75 mum pitch only allows one pad per channel, thus requiring the use of common cathode devices for both VCSEL and PD arrays.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; laser beam applications; optical crosstalk; optical links; optical receivers; optical transmitters; photodiodes; semiconductor laser arrays; surface emitting lasers; BiCMOS technology; SiGe; VCSEL; bit rate 1.5 Gbit/s; bit rate 96 Gbit/s; bulk resistivity; low channel crosstalk; photodiode arrays; short-distance parallel optical links; size 0.35 mum; transceiver modules; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Cathodes; Conductivity; Crosstalk; Germanium silicon alloys; Optical fiber communication; Silicon germanium; Throughput; Transceivers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ISSCC 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2010-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2011-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523141

Filename

4523141