45% Power Saving in a 0.25um BiCMOS 10Gb/s 50Ohm-Terminated Packaged Active-Load Laser Driver

Summary, in English

A 0.25mum BiCMOS laser driver based on active loads allows operation at 10Gb/s while drawing 5mA from a 1.8V supply. The design guarantees the correct matching of the driver outputs without the use of physical 50Omega load resistors. This enables a theoretical current consumption reduction of 50% (45% in the actual prototype) compared to the traditional laser-driver design.

• Author: Emre Ayranci; Kenn Christensen; Pietro Andreani
• Publishing year: 2007
• Language: English
• Pages: 552-553
• Publication/Series: IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2007 (ISSCC 2007). Digest of Technical Papers.
• Links: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4242240/4242241/04242510.pdf; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2007.373539
• Document type: Conference paper
• Topic: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
• Status: Published