Design of a generic and high performance CMOS burst mode laser driver

Author

Bawelinck, J. ; Martens, Y. ; Qui, X.Z. ; Ossieur, P. ; Noldus, K. ; Vandewege, J. ; Gilon, E. ; De Meulenaere, P. ; Ingrassia, A.

Author_Institution

INTEC/IMEC, Ghent Univ., Gent, Belgium

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1115

Abstract

An innovative 155 Mb/s burst-mode laser driver including a thermometer was designed in digital 0.35 μm CMOS. The laser driver is a digitally programmable current source with a very high resolution (12 bit). A single array of 1030 unit transistors provides both the bias and the 155 Mb/s drive current. According to our knowledge, both currents sharing the same high-resolution transistor array together with a novel automatic power control loop is unique in a laser driver.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; driver circuits; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit packaging; optical transmitters; power control; programmable circuits; semiconductor lasers; thermal management (packaging); thermometers; 0.35 micron; 12 bit; 155 Mbit/s; CMOS burst mode laser driver design; automatic power control loop; bias current; digital CMOS technology; digitally programmable current source resolution; drive current; single unit transistor array; thermometer; Bandwidth; Cost function; Driver circuits; Laser modes; Optical design; Optical fiber networks; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Power lasers; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2002. 9th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7596-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2002.1046447

Filename

1046447