Design and implementation of a CMOS light pulse receiver cell array for spatial optical communications.
A CMOS light pulse receiver (LPR) cell for spatial optical communications is designed and evaluated by device simulations and a prototype chip implementation. The LPR cell consists of a pinned photodiode and four transistors. It works under sub-threshold region of a MOS transistor and the source terminal voltage which responds to the logarithm of the photo current are read out with a source follower circuit. For finding the position of the light spot on the focal plane, an image pixel array is embedded on the same plane of the LPR cell array. A prototype chip with 640 × 240 image pixels and 640 × 240 LPR cells is implemented with 0.18 μm CMOS technology. A proposed model of the transient response of the LPR cell agrees with the result of the device simulations and measurements. Both imaging at 60 fps and optical communication at the carrier frequency of 1 MHz are successfully performed. The measured signal amplitude and the calculation results of photocurrents show that the spatial optical communication up to 100 m is feasible using a 10 × 10 LED array.
Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Nakaku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan. sarker@idl.rie.shizuoka.ac.jp
Md Shakowat Zaman
MS
Sarker
Shinya
S
Itoh
Moeta
M
Hamai
Isamu
I
Takai
Michinori
M
Andoh
Keita
K
Yasutomi
Shoji
S
Kawahito
D003142:Communication; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004560:Electricity; D004867:Equipment Design; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008027:Light; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D055096:Optical Devices; D010087:Oxides / Q000737:chemistry*; D012666:Semiconductors; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013997:Time Factors; D058067:Wavelet Analysis
D008670:Metals; D010087:Oxides