Abstract
The integration of a Verticle Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) array and a driving Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) in a custom optical array transmitter module (ATx) for operation in the detector front-end is constructed, assembled and tested. The ATx provides 12 parallel channels with each channel operating at 10 Gbps. The optical transmitter eye diagram passes the eye mask and the bit-error rate (BER) less than 10-12 transmission is achieved at 10 Gbps/ch. The overall insertion loss including the radiation induced attenuation is sufficiently low to meet the proposed link budget requirement.
Original language | English |
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Article number | C02007 |
Journal | Journal of Instrumentation |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2014 |
Keywords
- Front-end electronics for detector readout
- Lasers
- Optical detector readout concepts
- Radiation-hard electronics