An ASIC chipset for optical communications

Author

Chan, E.S. ; Lawrence, L.A.

Author_Institution

Galaxy Microsystems, Inc., San Jose, CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

10-13 Oct. 1993

Firstpage

303

Lastpage

306

Abstract

A transmitter/receiver chipset has been implemented in GaAs for a 1.3 Gbps optical communications link through free space media. The link encoding is Q=4 pulse position modulation (PPM), which economizes the power requirement of the lasers. The chipset offers an unprecedented integration of transmitter and receiver functions for this type of application.<>

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; MESFET integrated circuits; gallium arsenide; integrated optoelectronics; large scale integration; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; modulation coding; optical links; optical modulation; optical receivers; optical transmitters; pulse position modulation; 1.3 Gbit/s; ASIC chipset; GaAs; III-V semiconductors; LSI; MESFET process; demultiplexer; encoder; free space media; high speed; mixed signal design; optical communications link; pulse position modulation; transmitter/receiver chipset; Application specific integrated circuits; Clocks; Optical amplifiers; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Phase locked loops; Pulse modulation; Synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit (GaAs IC) Symposium, 1993. Technical Digest 1993., 15th Annual

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1393-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GAAS.1993.394446

Filename

394446