Conference paper
45% power saving in a 0.25μm BiCMOS 10Gb/s 50Ω-terminated packaged active-load laser driver
Abstract
A 0.25μm 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 50Ω load resistors. This enables a theoretical current consumption reduction of 50% (45% in the actual prototype) compared to the traditional laser-driver design.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Pages: | 552-553 |
| Proceedings: | 2007 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference |
| ISBN: | 1424408520 , 9781424408528 , 1424408539 and 9781424408535 |
| ISSN: | 23768606 and 01936530 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ISSCC.2007.373539 |
