Startup circuit to initialize voltage reference circuit

    公开(公告)号:US10401887B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-03

    申请号:US15745993

    申请日:2015-07-22

    Abstract: A circuit includes a startup circuit to provide a charging signal to initiate startup of a reference circuit. The startup circuit includes a detector circuit having a detector current path control, a level shifter having a level shifter current path control, and a charger circuit having a charger current path control. Each of the detector current path control, the level shifter current path control, and the charger circuit current path control enable current flow in the startup circuit when the charger turn-on signal is in the on-state and disable the current flow in the startup circuit when the charger turn-on signal is in the off state.

    BIAS-BASED MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATION (MZM) SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20190190610A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-20

    申请号:US16275727

    申请日:2019-02-14

    Abstract: One example includes a bias-based Mach-Zehnder modulation (MZM) system. The system includes a Mach-Zehnder modulator to receive and split an optical input signal and to provide an intensity-modulated optical output signal based on a high-frequency data signal to modulate a relative phase of the split optical input signal to transmit data and based on a bias voltage to modulate the relative phase of the split optical input signal to tune the Mach-Zehnder modulator. The system also includes a bias feedback controller to compare a detection voltage associated with the intensity-modulated output signal with a reference voltage to measure an extinction ratio associated with an optical power of the intensity-modulated optical output signal and to adjust the bias voltage based on the comparison to substantially maximize the extinction ratio.

    OPTICAL RECEIVERS
    23.
    发明申请
    OPTICAL RECEIVERS 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20190089466A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-21

    申请号:US16085364

    申请日:2016-04-14

    Abstract: An example optical receiver may have an optical receiver front-end, four slicers, and a logic block. The optical receiver front-end may include a transimpedance amplifier to convert a photodiode output signal to a voltage signal. Three of the slicers may be data slicers, and one of the slicers may be an edge slicer. The slicers may each: shift the voltage signal based on an offset voltage set for the respective slicer, determine whether the shifted voltage signal is greater than a threshold value and generate a number of comparison signals based on the determining, and generate multiple digital signals by demuxing the comparison signals. The logic block may perform PAM-4 to binary decoding based on the data signals output by the data slicers and clock-and-data-recovery based on the digital signals output by the edge slicer.

    Optical driver circuits
    24.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10193634B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-29

    申请号:US15269542

    申请日:2016-09-19

    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to optical driver circuits. In some of the disclosed examples, an optical driver circuit includes a pre-driver circuit and a main driver circuit. The pre-driver circuit may include a pattern generator and at least one serializer to generate a main modulation signal and an inverted delayed modulation signal. The main driver circuit may include a level controller to control amplitudes of pre-emphasis on rising and falling edges of a modulation signal output and an equalization controller to transition the modulation signal output from the pre-emphasis amplitudes to main modulation amplitudes using the inverted delayed modulation signal.

    Optical driver circuits
    26.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10530488B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-07

    申请号:US16231159

    申请日:2018-12-21

    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to optical driver circuits. In some of the disclosed examples, an optical driver circuit includes a pre-driver circuit and a main driver circuit. The pre-driver circuit may include a pattern generator and at least one serializer to generate a main modulation signal and an inverted delayed modulation signal. The main driver circuit may include a level controller to control amplitudes of pre-emphasis on rising and falling edges of a modulation signal output and an equalization controller to transition the modulation signal output from the pre-emphasis amplitudes to main modulation amplitudes using the inverted delayed modulation signal.

    NOISE-CANCELING TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER (TIA) SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20190131942A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US15768864

    申请日:2015-10-23

    Abstract: One embodiment describes a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) system. The system includes an inverter TIA stage interconnecting an input node and an output node and configured to invert an input signal at the input node to provide a first inverted signal component at the output node. The system also includes a noise-canceling inverter stage arranged in parallel with the inverter stage and being configured to invert the input signal to provide a second inverted signal component and to invert noise from the input node. Thus, the first and second inverted signal components constructively combine at the output node and the noise is substantially mitigated at the output node.

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