Design investigation to improve voltage swing and bandwidth of the SiGe driver circuit for a silicon electro-optic ring modulator

This paper reports on a new SiGe driver IC to address the low breakdown voltage level of modern BiCMOS transistors. An optical modulator driver IC in SiGe 250 nm technology with a supply voltage of 4.5 V is presented. This driver IC consists of pre- and main driver stages where a newly modified casc...

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Main Authors: A. Fatemi, H. Gaul, U. Keil, H. Klar
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Copernicus Publications 2015-11-01
Series:Advances in Radio Science
Online Access:http://www.adv-radio-sci.net/13/121/2015/ars-13-121-2015.pdf