10 Gb/s CMOS laser driver with 3.3 V/sub pp/ output swing

Author

Li, D.U. ; Huang, L.-R. ; Tsai, C.M.

Author_Institution

SoC Technol. Center, Ind. Technol. Res. Inst., Hsinchu

fYear

2005

fDate

21-21 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

333

Lastpage

336

Abstract

A novel intrinsic drain-gate capacitance (C_DG) feedback network (IDGCFN) is incorporated into the conventional cascode circuit configuration to implement a 10-Gb/s modulator driver in 0.18mum digital CMOS technology. The driver integrated circuit (IC) could output 3.3V output swing on a 50Omega load. The power consumption is as low as 0.36 W including the modulation current. The performances and simulation results compared with previously reported works are also shown in this paper. The proposed driver consumes the lowest power and occupies the smallest die area, and its output swing spans wider than the ever-reported CMOS laser drivers

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; driver circuits; optical modulation; 0.18 micron; 0.36 W; 10 Gbit/s; 3.3 V; 50 ohm; CMOS laser driver; cascode circuit configuration; digital CMOS technology; driver integrated circuits; intrinsic drain-gate capacitance feedback network; modulator drivers; CMOS digital integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Capacitance; Circuit simulation; Digital modulation; Driver circuits; Energy consumption; Feedback circuits; Integrated circuit technology; Laser feedback;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2005. Proceedings of the IEEE 2005

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9023-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2005.1568673

Filename

1568673