A 150-Mb/s CMOS Monolithic Optical Receiver for Plastic Optical Fiber Link

Monolithic optical link in silicon-on-insulator CMOS technology.

This work presents a monolithic laterally-coupled wide-spectrum (350 nm < λ < 1270 nm) optical link in a silicon-on-insulator CMOS technology. The link consists of a silicon (Si) light-emitting diode (LED) as the optical source and a Si photodiode (PD) as the detector; both realized by vertical abrupt n+p junctions, separated by a shallow trench isolation composed of silicon dioxide....

Ribbon plastic optical fiber linked optical transmitter and receiver modules featuring a high alignment tolerance.

Ribbon plastic optical fiber (POF) linked four-channel optical transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) modules have been proposed and realized featuring an excellent alignment tolerance. The two modules share a common configuration involving an optical sub-assembly (OSA) with vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)/photodetectors (PDs), and their driver ICs, which are integrated onto a sing...

A Quasi-monolithic Optical Receiver Using a Standard Digital Cmos Technology

CMOS optical receiver chipset for gigabit Ethernet applications

This paper describes a 1.25-Gb/s simplified CMOS optical receiver chipset for Gigabit Ethernet applications, consisting of a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit. The TIA takes a fully differential regulated cascode configuration, demonstrating 700MHz bandwidth for 1pF photodiode capacitance, 80dBΩ transimpedance gain, -17dBm sensitivity for BER of 10-12, a...

Improvement of Optical Properties in Hexagonal Index-guiding Photonic Crystal Fiber for Optical Communications

Waveguides with low confinement loss, low chromatic dispersion, and low nonlinear effects are used in optical communication systems. Optical fibers can also be employed in such systems. Besides optical fibers, photonic crystal fibers are also highly suitable transmission media for optical communication systems. In this paper, we introduce two new designs of index-guiding photonic crystal fiber ...