A 4×8-Gbps VCSEL array driver ASIC and integration with a custom array transmitter module for the LHC front-end transmission

Journal Article · Mon Mar 21 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.03.065· OSTI ID:1333141

Guo, Di ^[1]; Liu, Chonghan ^[2]; Chen, Jinghong ^[3]; Chramowicz, John ^[4]; Gong, Datao ^[2]; He, Huiqin ^[5]; Hou, Suen ^[6]; Liu, Tiankuan ^[2]; Prosser, Alan ^[4]; Teng, Ping -Kun ^[6]; Xiang, Annie C. ^[2]; Xiao, Le ^[7]; Ye, Jingbo ^[2]

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1. Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX (United States); Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Anhui (China)
2. Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX (United States)
3. Univ. of Houston, Houston TX (United States)
4. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
5. Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX (United States); Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen (People's Republic of China)
6. Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan)
7. Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX (United States); Central China Normal Univ., Hubei (People's Republic of China)

This paper describes the design, fabrication and experiment results of a 4×8-Gbps Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) array driver ASIC with the adjustable active-shunt peaking technique and the novel balanced output structure under the Silicon-on-Sapphire (SOS) process, and a custom array optical transmitter module, featuring a compact size of 10 mm×15 mm×5.3 mm. Both the array driver ASIC and the module have been fully tested after integration as a complete parallel transmitter. Optical eye diagram of each channel passes the eye mask at 8 Gbps/ch with adjacent channel working simultaneously with a power consumption of 150 mW/ch. As a result, the optical transmission of Bit-Error Rate (BER) less than 10E-12 is achieved at an aggregated data rate of 4×8-Gbps.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359; G001241
• OSTI ID: 1333141
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1397622
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-16-532-CD; 1481301
• Journal Information: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 831, Issue C; ISSN 0168-9002
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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