Fully integrated 0.25 μm CMOS 4×8 VCSEL driver array IC with 2.5 Gbit/s/channel bit rate and low cross talk

Author

Annen, Richard ; Melchior, Hans ; King, Roger ; Ebeling, Karl J.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Quantum Electron., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

449

Abstract

We presented and discussed the design and characterisation of a fully integrated CMOS-VCSEL transmitter array. A new circuit concept for current peaking is used. The realized transmitter shows negligibly small cross talk and operates up to 2.5 Gbit/s per channel. These results indicate that the introduced circuit concept allows the implementation of driver arrays with a dense channel grid for a VCSEL based OE-VLSI technology

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; driver circuits; integrated optoelectronics; laser noise; optical crosstalk; optical interconnections; optical transmitters; surface emitting lasers; 0.25 micron; 2.5 Gbit/s; CMOS VCSEL driver array IC; CMOS-VCSEL transmitter array; current peaking; dense channel grid; fully integrated array; high speed characterisation; intensity noise; optoelectronic VLSI technology; output eye-diagrams; point-to-point data communication; small crosstalk; triple shunt current driver; two-dimensional transmitter assembly; Bit rate; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS technology; Circuit noise; Delay; Driver circuits; Optical arrays; Optical transmitters; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.968866

Filename

968866