CMOS drive circuit for opto-electronic readout of image sensors

Author

Lawler, W.B.

Author_Institution

US Army Res. Lab., Adelphi, MD

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

124

Abstract

The author describes a CMOS circuit designed to provide DC and low-frequency pulsed drive current for semiconductor vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers under development at the US Army Research Laboratory. The circuit is the unit cell of an 8×8 element array that has been interfaced with a matched laser array. The author qualitatively discusses unit cell operation, provides circuit equations from his DC analysis, and shows experimental results

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; driver circuits; image sensors; integrated optoelectronics; laser beam applications; network analysis; semiconductor laser arrays; surface emitting lasers; CMOS drive circuit; DC analysis; DC drive current; LF pulsed drive current; circuit equations; image sensors; matched laser array; opto-electronic readout; semiconductor VCSEL; surface-emitting lasers; unit cell operation; vertical-cavity SEL; CMOS image sensors; Equations; Image sensors; Optical arrays; Optical design; Optical pulses; Pulse circuits; Semiconductor laser arrays; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1999. ISCAS '99. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5471-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1999.777526

Filename

777526