A programmable modulator-driver circuit

Author

Wu, Lan ; Yu, Ningmei ; Zhang, Yaohui

Author_Institution

Electron. Dept., Xian Univ. of Technol., Xian

fYear

2008

fDate

3-5 June 2008

Firstpage

2321

Lastpage

2324

Abstract

A programmable driver circuit is designed and tested in Chartered 0.35 um CMOS process for multiple-quantum-well (MQW) optical modulators. The drive circuit chip is flip-chip bonded to MQW optical modulators. This circuit can provide not only the maximum output drive voltage of 2 Vdd that enhances the contrast ratio of MQW optical modulators, but also the arbitrary voltage value up to 2 Vdd to drive the modulator. Simulation results demonstrate that this circuit can meet the requirements of the 256-level grayscale modulation MQW optical modulators.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; driver circuits; electro-optical modulation; flip-chip devices; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit testing; integrated optoelectronics; programmable circuits; quantum well devices; CMOS process; MQW optical modulators; contrast ratio; flip-chip bonding; grayscale modulation; multiple-quantum-well optical modulators; programmable driver circuit testing; programmable modulator-driver circuit design; size 0.35 mum; voltage 2 V; Bonding; CMOS process; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Driver circuits; Modulation coding; Optical design; Optical modulation; Quantum well devices; Voltage; MQW; modulator-driver; programmable;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics and Applications, 2008. ICIEA 2008. 3rd IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1717-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1718-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIEA.2008.4582932

Filename

4582932