A 16Gbps laser-diode driver with interwoven peaking inductors in 0.18-µm CMOS

Author

Kuboki, Takeshi ; Ohtomo, Yusuke ; Tsuchiya, Akira ; Kishine, Keiji ; Onodera, Hidetoshi

Author_Institution

Dept. Commun. & Comput. Eng., Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A laser-diode (LD) driver with interwoven mutually-coupled peaking inductors for high-speed optical networks is presented. Six and four inductors are interwoven into two sets of inductors for area-effective implementation as well as performance enhancement. The proposed circuit is fabricated in CMOS 0.18-μm process. The circuit area is 0.34mm² and the maximum operating speed is 16Gbps. Compared to a conventional LD driver in 0.18-μm CMOS, the proposed circuit achieves 1.6 times faster operation, 26% smaller area with 60% reduction in power consumption under the condition for the same amount of data transmission and the LD driving current.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; driver circuits; high-speed integrated circuits; inductors; low-power electronics; semiconductor lasers; CMOS; bit rate 16 Gbit/s; high-speed optical networks; interwoven peaking inductors; laser-diode driver; mutually-coupled peaking inductors; power consumption; size 0.18 mum; CMOS integrated circuits; Driver circuits; Inductors; Integrated circuit modeling; Modulation; Power dissipation; Shunt (electrical);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

ISSN

0886-5930

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5758-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2010.5617416

Filename

5617416