Title :
45% Power Saving in a 0.25μm BiCMOS 10Gb/s 50Ω-Terminated Packaged Active-Load Laser Driver
Author :
Ayranci, Emre ; Christensen, Kenn ; Andreani, Pietro
Author_Institution :
Denmark Tech. Univ., Lyngby
Abstract :
A 0.25mum BiCMOS laser driver based on active loads allows operation at 10Gb/s while drawing 5mA from a 1.8V supply. The design guarantees the correct matching of the driver outputs without the use of physical 50Omega load resistors. This enables a theoretical current consumption reduction of 50% (45% in the actual prototype) compared to the traditional laser-driver design.
Keywords :
BiCMOS integrated circuits; driver circuits; low-power electronics; microwave circuits; resistors; 0.25 micron; 1.8 V; 10 Gbits/s; 5 mA; 50 ohm; BiCMOS; active loads; current consumption reduction; laser-driver design; load resistors; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Driver circuits; Energy consumption; Laser feedback; Laser noise; Optical design; Packaging; Power lasers; Power measurement; Resistors;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2007. ISSCC 2007. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0853-9
Electronic_ISBN :
0193-6530
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2007.373539
