• DocumentCode
    3696786
  • Title

    A Laser Diode Driver with Hyperbolic Time Dependent Current in 0.35µm BiCMOS Technology

  • Author

    Abbas Khanmohammadi;Niksa Tadic;Horst Zimmermann

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Electrodynamics, Microwave &
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    21
  • Lastpage
    26
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the design of a high speed semiconductor laser diode driver for driving 0.5 to 2mW diodes at full optical power modulation up to 50MHz for use in a quantum random number generator. The output current is in a hyperbolic time-dependent shape in order to convert the exponential distribution of the photon arrival time to a uniform distribution function. The circuit is capable of delivering up to 10mA to a VCSEL laser load with a period time of 20ns.
  • Keywords
    "Photonics","Diode lasers","Voltage control","Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers","Transistors","Optical attenuators","Generators"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microelectronics (Austrochip), 2015 Austrian Workshop on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/Austrochip.2015.15
  • Filename
    7335859
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3696786