3.3/5V Multi-rate Laser Diode Driver and Limiting Amplifier for Optical Transceivers

Author

Chen, Yu-Tung ; Wang, Chihyang

Author_Institution

iCreate Technol. Corp., Hsinchu

fYear

2005

fDate

Nov. 2005

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

44

Abstract

A laser diode driver and a limiting amplifier for multirate and multistandard optical transceiver modules from 155Mb/s to 2.1Gb/s had been developed using a 0.5-mum SiGe BiCMOS technology. With new driving circuit, the laser can be DC-coupled to the laser diode driver for reduced component count and ease of multi-rate operation. Automatic power control (APC), modulation compensation and built-in temperature-compensation are also achieved. Careful circuit design enables the limiting amplifier to realize better input sensitivity of 2mVp-p and provides approximately 50dB of gain. A novel received signal strength indicator (RSSI) circuit is proposed to accomplish the input signal-detect function, and the circuit complexity and current consumption can be reduced. A low-frequency feedback loop is integrated in the limiting amplifier to reduce input offset, making it below 100muV typically

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; amplifiers; driver circuits; power control; semiconductor lasers; transceivers; 0.5 micron; 155 Mbit/s; 2 mV; 2.1 Gbit/s; 3.3 V; 5 V; 50 dB; BiCMOS technology; SiGe; automatic power control; built-in temperature-compensation; circuit design; limiting amplifier; modulation compensation; multirate laser diode driver; optical transceivers; received signal strength indicator circuit; Diode lasers; Driver circuits; Optical amplifiers; Optical feedback; Optical modulation; Optical sensors; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon germanium; Stimulated emission; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2005

Conference_Location

Hsinchu

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9163-2

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9163-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASSCC.2005.251802

Filename

4017526