An integrated direct-coupled 10-Gb/s driver for common-cathode VCSELs

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 426-433

  Ciubotaru, Alexandru A ^a   Sánchez García, Javier ^b  

^a MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS   (United States)

^b Maxim Integrated Products   (Spain)

Author keywords

Driver circuits; Integrated circuits; Optical communication; Optical fiber lasers; Surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; BUFFER CIRCUITS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; RESISTORS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BIASING; COLLECTOR EMITTER VOLTAGE; CURRENT SPLITTING; CURRENT SWITCHING; DRIVER CIRCUIT; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 12144287811     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.822764     Document Type: Article

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