A 112 Gb/s radiation-hard mid-board optical transceiver in 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS for intra-satellite links
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2021
We report the design of 112 Gb/s radiation-hard (RH) optical transceiver applicable to intra-satellite optical interconnects. The transceiver chipset comprises of VCSEL driver and transimpedance amplifier (TIA) ICs integrated with four channels per die, which are adapted for flip-chip assembly into a mid-board optics (MBO) optical transceiver module. The ICs are designed in the IHP 130nm SiGe BiCMOS process (SG13RH) leveraging proven robustness in radiation environments and high-speed performance featuring bipolar transistors (HBTs) with fT/ fMAX values of up to 250/340 GHz. Besides hardening-by-technology, radiation-hardened-by-design (RHBD) components are used, including enclosed layout transistors (ELT) and digital logic cells. We report design features of the ICs and module and provide performance data from post-layout simulations. We present radiation evaluation data on the analogue devices and digital cells, which indicate that the transceiver ICs would operate under typical total ionizing dose (TID) levels and single event latch-up thresholds found in geostationary satellites.
Photodiode
VCSEL
very high throughput satellites
Optical Interconnects
photonic payloads
Satellite commnunication
Optical transceivers
Författare
Stavros Giannakopoulos
Leo Space Photonics R&D
Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Mikrovågselektronik
Ilias Sourikopoulos
Leo Space Photonics R&D
Leontios Stampoulidis
Leo Space Photonics R&D
Pylyp Ostrovskyy
Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP)
Florian Teply
Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP)
Klaus Tittelbach-Helmrich
Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP)
Goran Panic
Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP)
Gunter Fischer
Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP)
Alexander Grabowski
Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik
Herbert Zirath
Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Mikrovågselektronik
Philippe Ayzac
Thales Alenia Space (France)
Norbert Venet
Thales Alenia Space (France)
Anaelle Maho
Thales Alenia Space (France)
Michel Sotom
Thales Alenia Space (France)
Shaun Jones
ALTER TECHNOLOGY TÜV NORD UK
Grahame Wood
ALTER TECHNOLOGY TÜV NORD UK
Ian Oxtoby
ALTER TECHNOLOGY TÜV NORD UK
Publicerad i
Frontiers in Physics
2296424X (eISSN)
Vol. 9 art. nr 672941Kategorisering
Styrkeområden
Informations- och kommunikationsteknik
Infrastruktur
Kollberglaboratoriet
Drivkrafter
Hållbar utveckling
Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)
Telekommunikation
Kommunikationssystem
Identifikatorer
DOI
10.3389/fphy.2021.672941