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A 12.5-Gb/s Optical Transmitter Using an Auto-power and -modulation Control

  • Oh, Won-Seok (Hybrid Signal Processing Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute) ;
  • Park, Kang-Yeob (Hybrid Signal Processing Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute) ;
  • Im, Young-Min (System Packaging Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute) ;
  • Kim, Hwe-Kyung (System Packaging Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute)
  • Received : 2009.09.15
  • Accepted : 2009.11.18
  • Published : 2009.12.25
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Abstract

In this paper, a 12.5-Gb/s optical transmitter is implemented using 0.13-${\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The optical transmitter that we constructed compensates temperature effects of VCSEL (Vertical cavity surface emitting laser) using auto-power control (APC) and auto-modulation control (AMC). An external monitoring photodiode (MPD) detects optical power and modulation. The proposed APC and AMC demonstrate 5$\sim$20-mA of bias-current control and 5$\sim$20-mA of modulation-current control, respectively. To enhance the bandwidth of the optical transmitter, an active feedback amplifier with negative capacitance compensation is exploited. The whole chip consumes only 140.4-mW of DC power at a single 1.8-V supply under the maximum modulation and bias currents, and occupies the area of 1280-${\mu}m$ by 330-${\mu}m$ excluding bonding pads.

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