Laser driver and optical transmitter implementing the same
AssigneeSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorsAkihiro Moto, Keiji Tanaka
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Abstract
An LD-Driver with the push-pull arrangement is disclosed. The driver includes the high side driver driven by the positive phase signal and the low side driver driven by the negative phase signal. When the positive phase signal is in HIGH, the high side driver becomes ON and the LD driver provides additional current to the bias current for the LD; while, when the negative phase signal is in HIGH, the low side driver becomes ON and the LD driver extracts a portion of the bias current for the LD.
Claims14
A laser diode driver to drive a semiconductor laser diode, the driver being driven with a positive phase signal and a negative phase signal complementary to each other, comprising:
- a high side driver including a series circuit of a first MOSFET and a second MOSFET, the first MOSFET having a conducting type different from a conducting type of the second MOSFET, the first MOSFET being driven by the positive phase signal, the high side driver providing a positive current to the semiconductor laser diode when the positive phase signal is in HIGH;
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- a low side driver driven by the negative phase signal, the low side driver extracting a negative current from the semiconductor laser diode.
An optical transmitter, comprising:
- a semiconductor laser diode;
- a bias current source to provide a bias current to the laser diode;
- a driver driven by a positive phase signal and a negative phase signal complementary to each other, the driver including,
- a high side driver including a series circuit of a first MOSFET and a second MOSFET, the first MOSFET having a conducting type different from a conducting type of the second MOSFET, the first MOSFET being driven by the positive phase signal to add a positive current to the bias current when the positive signal is in HIGH, and
- a low side driver driven by the negative phase signal to extract a negative current from the bias current when the negative signal is in HIGH.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.