A gigabit-rate five-highway GaAs OE-LSI chipset for high-speed optical interconnections between modules or VLSIs

Author

Yamanaka, Naoaki ; Sasaki, Masaharu ; Kikuchi, Shiro ; Takada, Thoru ; Idda, Masao

Author_Institution

NTT Transmission Syst. Lab., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

9

Issue

5

fYear

1991

fDate

6/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

689

Lastpage

697

Abstract

A gigabit-rate five highway interface GaAs optoelectronic LSI chipset has been fabricated for the 0.85 μm wavelength range optical interconnections between modules or VLSIs. The optical sender consists of a high-speed laser driver array LSI having 2 Gb/s maximum operation speed and a tiny laser array. The optical receiver in a GsAs high-speed optical receiver array LSI with a monolithically integrated metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) photodetector, a high-speed preamplifier, and a decision circuit that has a maximum operation speed of 1.8 Gb/s. The receiver LSI is provided with a new bit-synchronizing circuit and an automatic threshold determination circuit

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; VLSI; gallium arsenide; integrated optoelectronics; large scale integration; optical communication equipment; optical interconnections; 0.85 micron; VLSI; automatic threshold determination circuit; bit-synchronizing circuit; decision circuit; gigabit-rate five-highway GaAs OE-LSI chipset; high-speed optical interconnections; high-speed preamplifier; modules; monolithically integrated MSM photodetector; optical communication equipment; optical receiver; optoelectronic LSI chipset; Driver circuits; Gallium arsenide; High speed optical techniques; Large scale integration; Optical arrays; Optical interconnections; Optical receivers; Photodetectors; Road transportation; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.87637

Filename

87637