Silicon bipolar chipset for SONET/SDH 10 Gb/s fiber-optic communication links

Author

Andersson, L.I. ; Rudberg, Björn G R ; Lewin, P. Thomas ; Reed, Michael D. ; Planer, Sylvia M. ; Sundaram, Sam L.

Author_Institution

High Speed Electron. Res. Center, Ericsson Radar Electron. AB, Molndal, Sweden

Volume

30

Issue

3

fYear

1995

fDate

3/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

210

Lastpage

218

Abstract

High-speed multiplexers, demultiplexers, frequency dividers, mixers, and amplifiers are key electronic components in high-speed fiber-optic communications systems such as SONET/SDH. In this paper, we present several important digital and analog integrated circuits (IC) which have been developed for use in SONET/SDH 10 Gb/s optical communication links. The circuits have been fabricated in MOSAIC 5E, an advanced silicon bipolar technology (f_T=26 GHz). The resulting chipset which amounts to a total of 10 IC´s consists of multiplexers, demultiplexers, a regenerative frequency divider (2:1), a dual output limiting amplifier, and two different types of mixers for clock extraction. Specifically, the design and performance of these IC´s and a hybrid clock recovery module are discussed. The high performance and potential low cost of this research chipset show that advanced silicon bipolar circuit technology can play an important role in future multigigabit fiber-optic communication systems

Keywords

SONET; bipolar analogue integrated circuits; bipolar digital integrated circuits; demultiplexing equipment; digital communication; elemental semiconductors; frequency dividers; limiters; mixers (circuits); optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; silicon; synchronous digital hierarchy; wideband amplifiers; 10 Gbit/s; 26 GHz; MOSAIC 5E; SONET/SDH system; Si; Si bipolar chipset; TDM; analog integrated circuits; clock extraction; digital integrated circuits; dual output limiting amplifier; fiber-optic communication links; high-speed demultiplexers; high-speed multiplexers; hybrid clock recovery module; mixers; multigigabit optical fiber links; regenerative frequency divider; Analog integrated circuits; Clocks; Electronic components; Multiplexing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical frequency conversion; SONET; Silicon; Synchronous digital hierarchy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.364434

Filename

364434