Development of a CMOS Driver Circuit Connected to Transmission Line for High Speed and Low Power Optical Switch

Author

Kanaya, H. ; Uehara, S. ; Pokharel, R.K. ; Yoshida, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka

fYear

2006

fDate

4-5 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We designed a CMOS driver circuit connected to open-end coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission line for realizing high-speed and low power optical switches. In order to obtain the high output voltage and low power dissipation, we designed the stand-by power less driver circuit by using stacked CMOS inverters. In order to transmit high-speed pulses, the gates of CMOS inverters are divided and connected with transmission line like a distributed type amplifier. Switching speed of our new CMOS driver has 31.5% faster than that of standard one.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; coplanar waveguides; driver circuits; invertors; low-power electronics; optical switches; optical waveguides; transmission lines; CMOS driver circuit; distributed type amplifier; open-end coplanar wave guide; optical switch; stacked CMOS inverters; transmission line; Coplanar transmission lines; Coplanar waveguides; Distributed parameter circuits; Driver circuits; Inverters; Optical design; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Power transmission lines; Pulse amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, 2006. WAMICON '06. IEEE Annual

Conference_Location

Clearwater Beach, FL

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0849-0

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0849-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAMICON.2006.351953

Filename

4161115