E/O module integrated with combined Tx/Rx and Mux/Demux

Author

Nguyen, Nga T H ; Ngo, Trong-Hieu ; Lim, Dong-Min ; Cho, Mu-Hee ; Lee, Tae-Woo ; Park, Hyo-Hoon

Author_Institution

Photonic Comput. Syst. Labs., Inf. & Commun. Univ., Daejeon

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 May 2009

Firstpage

2030

Lastpage

2033

Abstract

An electrical/optical (E/O) module integrated with a combined transmitter/receiver (Tx/Rx) and multiplexer/demultiplexer (Mux/Demux) is proposed. With this topology, a high efficient bidirectional optical link can be implemented in the term of saving power consumption, chip area, board area as common blocks are shared between Tx and Rx as well as Mux and Demux. Based on this topology, a design of 2-channel Tx/Mux and Rx/Demux is realized in a 0.18 mum TSMC CMOS technology. The post simulation results demonstrate a 3-dB bandwidth of 4 GHz and 5 Gbps clear eye diagrams. The combined solution would save the chip area and power consumption of 10% and 23% respectively compared to discrete circuits implementations.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; demultiplexing equipment; integrated optoelectronics; multiplexing equipment; optical receivers; optical transmitters; TSMC CMOS technology; bidirectional optical link; bit rate 5 Gbit/s; electrical-optical module integration; multiplexer-demultiplexer; size 0.18 mum; transmitter-receiver; Bandwidth; CMOS technology; Circuit simulation; Energy consumption; Integrated optics; Multiplexing; Optical fiber communication; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Components and Technology Conference, 2009. ECTC 2009. 59th

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

0569-5503

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4475-5

Electronic_ISBN

0569-5503

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTC.2009.5074301

Filename

5074301