N-over-N cascode push–pull modulator driver in 130 nm CMOS enabling 20 Gbit/s optical interconnection with Mach-Zehnder modulator

Shenghao Liu; Ke Li; Peter Wilson; David Thomson; Graham Reed

doi:10.1049/el.2015.2909

N-over-N cascode push–pull modulator driver in 130 nm CMOS enabling 20 Gbit/s optical interconnection with Mach-Zehnder modulator

Shenghao Liu, Ke Li, Peter Wilson, David Thomson, Graham Reed

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

The N-over-N cascode push-pull modulator driver is demonstrated at 20 Gbit/s with IBM 130 nm technology. Electro-optical measurement of the modulator driver integrated with a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) is also presented. This modulator driver achieves 50 Ω output impedance matching (for the MZM) with on-chip termination. The power consumption of the modulator driver is 312 mW and the output swing is 3.4 Vpp on the differential.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1900-1902
Number of pages	3
Journal	Electronics Letters
Volume	51
Issue number	23
Early online date	5 Nov 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2015.2909
Publication status	Published - 5 Nov 2015

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N-over-N cascode push–pull modulator driver in 130 nm CMOS enabling 20 Gbit/s optical interconnection with Mach-Zehnder modulator

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