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Design of 250-Mb/s Low-Power Fiber Optic Transmitter and Receiver ICs for POF Applications

  • Park, Kang-Yeob (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Oh, Won-Seok (System IC R&D Division, Korea Electronics Technology Institute) ;
  • Choi, Jong-Chan (System IC R&D Division, Korea Electronics Technology Institute) ;
  • Choi, Woo-Young (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • Received : 2011.06.16
  • Published : 2011.09.30
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Abstract

This paper describes 250-Mb/s fiber optic transmitter and receiver ICs for plastic optical fiber applications using a$ 0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. Simple signal and light detection schemes are introduced for power reduction in sleep mode. The transmitter converts non-return-to-zero digital data into 650-nm visible-red light signal and the receiver recovers the digital data from the incident light signal through up to 50-m plastic optical fiber. The transmitter and receiver ICs occupy only 0.62 $mm^2$ of area including electrostatic discharge protection diodes and bonding pads. The transmitter IC consumes 23 mA with 20 mA of LED driving currents, and the receiver IC consumes 16 mA with 4 mA of output driving currents at 250 Mb/s of data rate from a 3.3-V supply in active mode. In sleep mode, the transmitter and receiver ICs consume only 25 ${\mu}A$ and 40 ${\mu}A$, respectively.

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