A wideband monolithic optoelectronic integrated receiver with a high-speed photo-detector,completely compatible with standard CMOS processes,is designed and implemented in 0.6μm standard CMOS technology.The experimental results demonstrate that its performance approaches applicable requirements,where the photo-detector achieves a -3dB frequency of 1.11GHz,and the receiver achieves a 3dB bandwidth of 733MHz and a sensitivity of -9dBm for λ=850nm at BER=10-12.
A high-bandwidth, high-sensitivity fully differential optoelectronic integrated receiver is implemented in a chartered 3.3 V standard 0.35μm analbg CMOS process. To convert the incident light into a pair of fully differential photo-currents, a novel fully differential photodetector is proposed, which is composed of two completely identical photodiodes. The mea- surement results show that the receiver achieves a 1.11 GHz 3 dB bandwidth and a -13 dBm sensitivity for a 10-12 bit error at 1.5 Gb/s data rate under illumination by 850 nm incident lights.
YU Chang-liang MAO Lu-hong XIAO Xin-dong XIE Sheng ZHANG Shi-lin
A standard CMOS optical interconnect is proposed, including an octagonal-annular emitter, a field oxide, metal 1-PSG/BPSG-metal 2 dual waveguide, and an ultra high-sensitivity optical receiver integrated with a fingered P＋/N-well/P-sub dual photodiode detector. The optical interconnect is implemented in a Chartered 3.3-V 0.35-μm standard analog CMOS process with two schemes for the research of the substrate noise coupling effect on the optical interconnect performance： with or without a GND-guardring around the emitter. The experiment results show that the optical interconnect can work at 100 kHz, and it is feasible to implement optical interconnects in standard CMOS processes.
A novel high-bandwidth, high-sensitivity differential optical receiver without any additional cost compared to general optical receivers, is proposed for high-speed optical communications and interconnections. High bandwidth and high sensitivity are achieved through a fully differential transimpedance amplifier with balanced input loads and two photodetectors to convert the incident light into a pair of differential photogenerated currents,respectively. In addition,a corresponding 0.35μm standard CMOS optoelectronic integrated receiver with two 60μm × 30μm, 1. 483pF fingered p^＋/n- well/p-substrate photodiodes is also presented. The simulation results demonstrate that it achieves a 1.37GHz bandwidth and a 81.9dBΩ transimpedance gain,supporting data rates up to at least 2Gbit/s. The device consumes a core area of 0. 198mm^2 and the optical sensitivity is at least - 13dBm for a 10^-12 bit error rate under a 2^15 - 1 PRBS input signal.
