A 24 mW 2.5 Gb/s VCSEL driver in 0.18 um CMOS

Author

Thibodeau, Jean-Philippe ; Murray, Chris ; Plant, David V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

2004

fDate

28-30 June 2004

Abstract

In this paper, the design and testing of a 2.5 Gb/s VCSEL driver for short-to-medium reach optical interconnects is outlined. With the ever increasing processing capacity of digital systems, electrical interconnects linking CMOS chips have become the limiting performance factor. Optical interconnects have been proposed as a promising alternative to increase interconnect capacity. Although vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL) are well suited for such an application, high-speed VCSEL drivers reported in the literature generally consume a significant amount of power.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; digital signal processing chips; driver circuits; optical interconnections; surface emitting lasers; system-on-chip; 0.18 micron; 2.5 Gbit/s; 24 mW; CMOS chips; VCSEL driver; digital system processing capacity; electrical interconnects linking; optical interconnects; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; CMOS process; Digital systems; Joining processes; Optical design; Optical interconnections; Power lasers; Power system interconnection; Surface emitting lasers; Testing; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WBM Microcavities, 2004 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

ISSN

1099-4742

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8306-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2004.1338706

Filename

1338706