Title :
Ultra low-power receiver design for dense optical interconnects
Author :
Nazari, Meisam Honarvar ; Emami-Neyestanak, Azita
Author_Institution :
California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
In this work, a compact low-power optical receiver that scales well with technology has been designed to explore the potential of optical signaling for future chip-to-chip and on-chip communication. The proposed receiver resolves the problem by employing an integrating RC front-end along with dynamic offset modulation technique that decouple the bandwidth/data-rate and integration/headroom trade-offs.
Keywords :
optical interconnections; optical receivers; RC front-end; chip-to-chip communication; dense optical interconnects; dynamic offset modulation; on-chip communication; optical signaling; ultra low power receiver design; CMOS integrated circuits; Capacitance; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Photodiodes; Sensitivity;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Interconnects Conference, 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Santa Fe, NM
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1620-1
DOI :
10.1109/OIC.2012.6224419
