This paper discusses the challenges and the trade-offs in the design of laser drivers for very-short distance optical communications. A prototype integrated circuit is designed and fabricated in 28 nm super-low-power CMOS technology. The power consumption of the transmitter is 17.2 mW excluding the VCSEL that in our test has a DC power consumption of 10 mW. The active area of the driver is only 0.0045 mm². The driver can achieve an error-free (<BER < 10^12) electrical data-rate of 25 Gbit/s using a pseudo random bit sequence of 2^7-1. When the driver is connected to the VCSEL module an open optical eye is reported at 15 Gbit/s. In the tested bias point the VCSEL module has a measured bandwidth of 10.7 GHz.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:34801 |
| Date | 06 August 2019 |
| Creators | Belfiore, Guido, Szilagyi, Laszlo, Henker, Ronny, Ellinger, Frank |
| Publisher | SPIE |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:conferenceObject, info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 10.1117/12.2202800, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft/FP7/619197//ADDAPT |
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