2.5 Gbps CMOS laser diode driver with APC and digitally controlled current modulation

Chih-Hsien Lin1, I-Chen Yao1, Chun-Cheng Kuo1, Shyh-Jye Jou1
1Department of Electrical Engineering, National Central University, ChungLi, Taiwan

Tóm tắt

This laser diode driver operates at 2.5 Gbps. It contains a driver, a reference voltage generator, an automatic power control circuit and digitally controlled blocks of bias current and modulation current. The TSMC 0.35 /spl mu/m 1P4M CMOS digital process is used to fabricate this chip. APC is used to maintain the laser diode output power and it works when photodetector gain ranges from 1/80 to 1/120. A dynamic pull-up and pull-down circuit of the output driver is used to improve the eye diagram. The experimental results demonstrate that it works at 2.5 Gbps and the APC digital control blocks of bias current and modulation current also work well.

Từ khóa

#Diode lasers #Digital control #Optical control #Digital modulation #Driver circuits #Power generation #Automatic control #Power control #Automatic generation control #Automatic voltage control

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