Low-noise optical receiver for high-speed optical transmission

This paper describes the design of a low-noise optical receiver using Si bipolar transistors for high-speed optical transmission. The conventional common emitter-common collector circuit (CE-CC pair) and Darlingtou circuit (transimpedance amplifiers with parallel feedback) are studied. Optimal CE-CC pair collector-biasing current for attaining minimum noise current with a 400-MHz bandwidth is 2.7 mA, and less than 1.2 mA for the Darlington circuit. It is confirmed that the Darlington circuit is better than the CE-CC pair in signal-to-noise ratio by about 1.5 dB. The low-noise Darlington optical receiver with a Ge-avalanche photodiode has achieved an optical sensitivity of -41 dBm for a 400 Mbit/s RZ pulse with a bit error rate of 10^-10. This is a 2.5-dB improvement in optical sensitivity over that of the conventional CE-CC receiver.     

Low-noise optical receiver for high-speed optical transmission

This paper describes the design of a low-noise optical receiver using Si bipolar transistors for high-speed optical transmission. The conventional common emitter-common collector circuit (CE-CC pair) and Darlington circuit (transimpedance amplifiers with parallel feedback) are studied. Optimal CE-CC pair collector-biasing current for attaining minimum noise current with a 400-MHz bandwidth is 2.7 mA, and less than 1.2 mA for the Darlington circuit. It is confirmed that the Darlington circuit is better than the CE-CC pair in signal-to-noise ratio by about 1.5 dB. The low-noise Darlington optical receiver with a Ge-avalanche photodiode has achieved an optical sensitiyity of -41 dBm for a 400 Mbit/s RZ pulse with a bit error rate of 10^-10. This is a 2.5-dB improvement in optical sensitivity over that of the conventional CE-CC receiver.     

用于高速光电组件的光焊球阵列封装技术

本文介绍了用于高速光电组件的表面安装型焊球阵列(BGA)封装技术。     

Modeling high-speed optical transmission systems

Computer simulation of a 2.5-Gb/s intensity-modulated/direct-detected optical system with high path dispersion is described. This simulation, based on single-mode laser diode rate equations, includes transmit and receiver circuit filtering, receiver circuit noise, avalanche photodiode noise, fiber dispersion, and laser chirp. The rate equations are sufficiently general to model mode-offset distributed feedback laser diodes. The system power penalty, due to laser chirp and fiber dispersion, is calculated using Gaussian quadrature numerical integration. By simulating a population of some 12800 laser diodes and correlating the performance of each laser in a transmission system with its spectral characteristics, it is possible to deduce laser specifications that will assure satisfactory operation in long-span links. These results are used to study a laser diode specification under consideration by CCITT, and, by studying the simulated laser line shapes, some modifications to the CCITT specification are considered     

低功耗DDR高速信号的封装布线方案设计及信号完整性分析

不同于印制电路板的制作工艺,芯片封装基板的走线更细,线间距更窄。狭小的布线空间使传输线效应更为明显,而且封装设计的好坏直接影响芯片是否可以正常工作,同时芯片成本的控制要求布线层尽量要最少。这些问题使得高速信号布线面临严峻的挑战。在国家科技重大专项的资助下,使用全波电磁场仿真工具进行建模分析,研究了布线中线宽、线间距和参考地对信号传输质量和信号间串扰的影响,并且基于一款低功耗DDR高速芯片的双层封装布线设计,在实际设计方案中对分析结果进行了仿真验证,最终得到了一种高质量、低成本封装基板高速布线方案,速率达到1 333 Mb/s。     

Packaging and integration technologies for future high-frequency power supplies

This paper reviews data from the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors to establish where dc-dc converters are headed in the first decade of the new millennium. It focuses on the high performance computing (high current, fast response, high power density) and portable/handheld (low profile) sectors. Magnetics and power device packaging technologies needed to allow power supplies to move to operating frequencies in the 1-10 MHz region are discussed. It introduces the concept of magnetic components fully embedded (windings and core) in PCB and silicon offering low profile and low losses at high frequency. It also reviews developments in wirebond-free power packaging such as flip-chip assembly that offer low profile, reduced parasitics and increased thermal performance. Finally, consideration is given to the changes in the power electronics industry that may need to be addressed to enable these new technologies to play a strategic role.     

A high-speed GaAs MESFET optical controller

Optical interconnects are being considered for control signal distribution in phased array antennas. A packaged hybrid GaAs optical controller with a 1:16 demultiplexed output that is suitable for this application is described. The controller, which was fabricated using enhancement/depletion mode MESFET technology, operates at demultiplexer-limited input data rates up to 305 Mb/s and requires less than 200 μW optical input power     

Recent progress on high-speed optical transmission

The recently reported high spectral efficiency (SE) and high-baud-rate signal transmission are all based on digital coherent optical communications and digital signal processing (DSP). DSP simplifies the reception of advanced modulation formats and also enables the major electrical and optical impairments to be processed and compensated in the digital domain, at the transmitter or receiver side. In this paper, we summarize the research progress on high-speed signal generation and detection and also show the progress on DSP for high-speed signal detection. We also report the latest progress on multi-core and multi-mode multiplexing.     

A proposed new high-speed optical detector

The small-signal optical detection properties of the barrier injection transit-time (BARITT) diode structure are presented. At low frequencies, the device behaves as a punch-through phototransistor while at frequencies near the transit-time frequency the device is capable of additional gain due to negative-resistance reflection-type amplification.     

高速光交换机竞争调度策略

在光交换网络中,当同一波长两个或多个光分组同时离开光交换机的同一个输出端口时将会发生对输出端资源的竞争,竞争失败的光分组将受阻,如何有效地调度将使光交换系统性能受到很大影响,文章综述了目前解决光交换网分组冲突的几种方案,阐述了各种解决方法的原理、实现方式及特点,展望了今后可能采用的最佳竞争调度方案.     

Architectures and technologies for high-speed optical data networks

Current optical networks are migrating to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)-based fiber transport between traditional electronic multiplexers/demultiplexers, routers, and switches. Passive optical add-drop WDM networks have emerged but an optical data network that makes full use of the technologies of dynamic optical routing and switching exists only in experimental test-beds. This paper discusses architecture and technology issues for the design of high performance optical data networks with two classes of technologies, WDM and time division multiplexing (TDM). The WDM network architecture presented stresses WDM aware Internet protocol (IP), taking full advantage of optical reconfiguration, optical protection and restoration, traffic grooming to minimize electronics costs, and optical flow-switching for large transactions. Special attention is paid to the access network where innovative approaches to architecture may have a significant cost benefit. In the more distant future, ultrahigh-speed optical TDM networks, operating at single stream data rates of 100 Gb/s, may offer unique advantages over WDM networks. These advantages may include the ability to provide integrated services to high-end users, multiple quality-of-service (QoS) levels, and truly flexible bandwidth-on-demand. The paper gives an overview of an ultrahigh-speed TDM network architecture and describes recent key technology developments such as high-speed sources, switches, buffers, and rate converters     

高速光学模数转换器的研究现状及进展

高速高精度模数转换器（Analog-to-digital Converters,ADC）是现代数字信息处理系统中的关键组成部分,现有的电子模数转换器存在运行速率严重受限的难题,因此引入光学方法实现高速高精度模数转换成为研究的热点。本文重点针对高速光学模数转换器的研究现状及进展进行了探讨,并对光学辅助、光采样电量化、电采样光量化以及全光采样量化目前4种最主要的光学模数转换器的原理、结构和最新的研究进展进行了详细的介绍。     

Three-dimensional high-frequency distribution networks. II.Packaging and integration

This paper describes the implementation and packaging of the components, described in Part I of this paper, to realize a three-dimensional W-band distribution network     

Fully differential optical interconnections for high-speed digitalsystems

This work presents the design details and experimental results for a parallel optical link. The link is designed for connections within high-speed digital systems, specifically for board- and backplane-level interconnections. The link can contain as many fibers in parallel as technology permits. The unusual aspects of this interconnection system are that it is DC-coupled and uses fully differential inputs, two optical channels per signal, to achieve self-thresholding and noise immunity. A chip set consisting of a 2.5-Gb/s bipolar differential laser driver, a 800-Mb/s GaAs MSM (metal-semiconductor-metal) preamplifier array, a 800-Mb/s GaAs MSM preamplifier-postamplifier array, and a GaAs MSM preamplifier array in which each preamplifier has a different bandwidth varying from 300 Mb/s to 2 Gb/s has been designed, fabricated, and tested to serve as a vehicle for verifying the concept. Although the experimental testing of the entire interconnect system is not yet complete, the experimental studies presented show a bandwidth in excess of 800 MHz and excellent signal isolation between channels     

Packet optical networks for high-speed TCP-IP backbones

This article presents a new proposal for TCP-IP backbone implementation based on optical packet switching technology. The proposed network architecture merges the flexibility in resource management of packet switching with the high capacity offered by full optical technology     

Modal noise and optical feedback in high-speed optical systems at 0.85 ?m

The most critical interferences in optical broadband communication systems at 0.85 ?m are the modal noise in a graded-index fibre and the feedback problems in d.h. semiconductor lasers. Experiments with these two phenomena in a high-speed digital transmission system are described.     

Fundamental limitations of optical resonator based high-speed EOmodulators

Expressions for the modulation bandwidth and drive voltage for optical resonator-based modulators are presented. A comparison with lumped element Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulators and with traveling wave MZ modulators is presented     

MPCP based active optical access network with PLZT high-speed optical switch

An active optical access network architecture with our newly developed PLZT ((Pb,La)(Zr,Ti)O₃) high-speed optical switch is introduced, with a view to realizing the next-generation high capacity scalable access network. This system is developed based on the latest IEEE standard of PON (10G-EPON; IEEE802.3av) in consideration of the coordination with future high capacity PON. PLZT high-speed optical switches are able to switch an optical signal at nano-second speed (<5-10 ns). Generally, the merits of using optical switches are increasing the number of subscribers and transmission distance easily, preventing malicious ONUs from interfacing with the communication between OLT and the other ONUs, realizing fast fiber and OLT protection/restoration and providing various services by controlling optical switches dynamically. This paper focuses on two key technologies; a PLZT optical switch and a new discovery process for active optical access network based on MPCP defined at IEEE802.3. A major challenge in designing active optical access network is supporting the discovery process of MPCP because it does not offer broadcast transmission unlike the regular PON. We propose here a new discovery process; it has been tested successfully in an implementation of our proposed system.     

Study of self-trapped optical beams by high-speed holography

Output of a 10-MWQ-switched Nd³⁺glass laser was focused into several kinds of liquid media, and the change in the refractive indicesdeltandue to the focused laser beam was observed by means of double exposure holography using aQ-switched ruby laser as the light source. It has been shown that a filament of several 10 μ in diameter and several mm in length is formed around the focal point. The filament remains almost unchanged more than several μs. The sign ofdeltanafter the passage of the laser beam is negative. The temperature change at the filament has been estimated to be about 0.2°C, assumingdeltanto be caused entirely by thermal effect of the beam. The absorption of the laser beam that causes this temperature change has been found to be linear in the flux density, the absorption coefficient being2 times 10^{-3}cm^-1in CS2. The growth of spherical and plane pressure waves has also been observed.