• DocumentCode
    3527353
  • 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
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    24-28 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2008.4528530
  • Filename
    4528530
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3527353