An H-bridge integrated
laser driver optimizes
power consumption,
impedance matching, low-swing and high-swing reliability for electro-absorption modulated
laser (EML) and direct modulated
laser diode (DML) applications, VCSEL /
silicon photonics, and other applications requiring high-swing drivers or control of impedance. The laser driver includes a retimer for converting low-speed parallel data into a high-speed serial bit
stream and an inverted representation of the high-speed parallel bit
stream, an M-bit PMOS DAC configured to receive a first buffered bit
stream, an N-bit NMOS DAC configured to receive a second buffered bit stream substantially synchronized with the first buffered bit stream. A protection device is coupled between the M-bit DAC and the N-bit DAC. A first DC level shift pre-driver array is coupled between the retimer and the M-bit DAC to receive the high-speed parallel bit stream and the inverted high-speed parallel bit stream, and a second DC level shift pre-driver array is coupled between the retimer and the N-bit DAC to receive the high-speed parallel bit stream and the inverted high-speed parallel bit stream. An
impedance matching module is coupled to an output of the protection device. The laser driver can be integrated on a
CMOS communication
chip.