Title :
1.5mW/Gbps Low Power Optical Interconnect Transmitter Exploiting High-Efficiency VCSEL and CMOS Driver
Author :
Nakagawa, Sachiko ; Kuchta, Daniel ; Schow, Clint ; John, Ranjith ; Coldren, Larry A. ; Yu-Chia Chang
Author_Institution :
IBM Tokyo Res. Lab., Yamato, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate a low power optical interconnect transmitter which employs a 990 nm VCSEL with high efficiency and low threshold current, and a 130 nm CMOS driver. The power dissipated by the transmitter is 15.1 mW at 10 Gbps.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; integrated optoelectronics; laser cavity resonators; optical interconnections; optical transmitters; surface emitting lasers; CMOS driver; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; high-efficiency VCSEL; low threshold current; optical interconnect transmitter; power 15.1 mW; power dissipation; wavelength 130 nm; wavelength 990 nm; Bandwidth; CMOS technology; High speed optical techniques; Optical design; Optical interconnections; Optical transmitters; Power dissipation; Power system interconnection; System performance; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528530
