A 60 Gbit/s Integrated Encoderless Duobinary VCSEL-Driver.

Ronny Henker

Maximilian Froitzheim Florian Protze Franz Alwin Dürrwald Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger A 60 Gbit/s Integrated Encoderless Duobinary VCSEL-Driver. 58-62 2026 January 73 IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Express Briefs 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2025.3631479 db/journals/tcasII/tcasII73.html#FroitzheimPDHE26 streams/journals/tcasII

Alexandru Giuglea Guido Belfiore Florian Protze Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger A High-Speed 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS Integrated Duobinary Driver for Data Rate Capacity Enhancement in VCSEL-Based Optical Links. 28343-28352 2024 12 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3353783 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130114859 db/journals/access/access12.html#GiugleaBPHE24

Alexandru Giuglea Mohammad Mahdi Khafaji Guido Belfiore Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger A Low-Distortion Modulator Driver With Over 6.5-V<sub>pp</sub> Differential Output Swing and Bandwidth Above 60 GHz in a 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS Technology. 78667-78676 2022 10 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3192867 db/journals/access/access10.html#GiugleaKBHE22

László Szilágyi Jan Plíva Ronny Henker David Schoeniger Jaroslaw P. Turkiewicz Frank Ellinger A 53-Gbit/s Optical Receiver Frontend With 0.65 pJ/bit in 28-nm Bulk-CMOS. 845-855 2019 54 IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2018.2885531 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128678563 db/journals/jssc/jssc54.html#SzilagyiPHSTE19

Mohammad Mahdi Khafaji Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger A 1-pJ/bit 80-Gb/s $2^{15}-1$ PRBS Generator With a Modified Cherry-Hooper Output Driver. 2059-2069 2019 54 IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 7 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2019.2904172 db/journals/jssc/jssc54.html#KhafajiHE19

László Szilágyi Jan Plíva Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger A Mixed-Signal Offset-Compensation System for Multi-Gbit/s Optical Receiver Frontends. 46-51 2019 VLSI-SoC https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-SoC.2019.8920361 conf/vlsi/2019 db/conf/vlsi/vlsisoc2019.html#SzilagyiPHE19 László Szilágyi Jan Plíva Ronny Henker Offset-Compensation Systems for Multi-Gbit/s Optical Receivers. 235-255 2019 VLSI-SoC (Selected Papers) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53273-4_11 conf/vlsi/2019socs db/conf/vlsi/vlsisoc2019s.html#SzilagyiPH19

Christos A. Thraskias Eythimios N. Lallas Niels Neumann Laurent Schares Bert J. Offrein Ronny Henker Dirk Plettemeier Frank Ellinger Juerg Leuthold Ioannis Tomkos Survey of Photonic and Plasmonic Interconnect Technologies for Intra-Datacenter and High-Performance Computing Communications. 2758-2783 2018 20 IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2018.2839672 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q129748189 db/journals/comsur/comsur20.html#ThraskiasLNSOHP18

Mohammad Mahdi Khafaji Guido Belfiore Jan Plíva Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger A 4×45 Gb/s Two-Tap FFE VCSEL Driver in 14-nm FinFET CMOS Suitable for Burst Mode Operation. 2686-2695 2018 53 IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 9 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2018.2849390 db/journals/jssc/jssc53.html#KhafajiBPHE18

Alexandru Giuglea Guido Belfiore Mahdi M. Khafaji Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger A 30 Gb/s High-Swing, Open-Collector Modulator Driver in 250 nm SiGe BiCMOS. 5-8 2018 MWSCAS https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSCAS.2018.8624057 conf/mwscas/2018 db/conf/mwscas/mwscas2018.html#GiugleaBKHE18 Guido Belfiore Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger 40 Gbit/s 4-PAM VCSEL Driver Circuit With Power Roll-off Compensation. 747-750 2018 MWSCAS https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSCAS.2018.8624030 conf/mwscas/2018 db/conf/mwscas/mwscas2018.html#BelfioreHE18 Alessandro Cevrero Ilter Özkaya Thomas Morf Thomas Toifl M. Seifried Frank Ellinger Mohammad Mahdi Khafaji Jan Plíva Ronny Henker Nikolay N. Ledentsov J.-R. Kropp V. A. Shchukin M. Zoldak L. Halmo I. Eddie Jaroslaw P. Turkiewicz 4×40 Gb/s 2 pJ/bit Optical RX with 8ns Power-on and CDR-Lock Time in 14nm CMOS. 1-3 2018 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8385726 conf/ofc/2018 db/conf/ofc/ofc2018.html#CevreroOMTSEKPH18 Alexandru Giuglea Guido Belfiore Mahdi M. Khafaji Ronny Henker Despoina Petousi Georg Winzer Lars Zimmermann Frank Ellinger Comparison of Segmented and Traveling-Wave Electro-Optical Transmitters Based on Silicon Photonics Mach-Zehnder Modulators. 1-3 2018 PSC https://doi.org/10.1109/PS.2018.8751239 conf/ps/2018 db/conf/ps/psc2018.html#GiugleaBKHPWZE18

Guido Belfiore Mahdi M. Khafaji Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger A 50 Gb/s 190 mW Asymmetric 3-Tap FFE VCSEL Driver. 2422-2429 2017 52 IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 9 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2017.2717918 db/journals/jssc/jssc52.html#BelfioreKHE17

Waltenegus Dargie David Schoeniger László Szilágyi Xin An Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger A Highly Adaptive and Energy-Efficient Optical Interconnect for On-Board Server Communications. 1-8 2017 ICCCN https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCN.2017.8038420 conf/icccn/2017 db/conf/icccn/icccn2017.html#DargieSSAHE17 Guido Belfiore László Szilágyi Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger 25 Gbit/s adaptive 3-tap FFE VCSEL driver in 28-nm CMOS for data center communications. 1-4 2017 ICTON https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2017.8024799 conf/icton/2017 db/conf/icton/icton2017.html#BelfioreSHE17 Mircea Catuneanu Ronny Henker R. Hosseini M. Jazayerifar H. Aminpour David Schoeniger Alexandru Giuglea Krzysztof Nieweglowski Frank Ellinger Karlheinz Bock Kambiz Jamshidi Design considerations and constraints in silicon based optical on-board interconnects for short range communications. 1-4 2017 ICTON https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2017.8024827 conf/icton/2017 db/conf/icton/icton2017.html#CatuneanuHHJASG17 Ronny Henker Thomas Toifl Alessandro Cevrero Ilter Oezkaya Michael Georgiades Mahdi M. Khafaji Jan Plíva Frank Ellinger Adaptive high-speed and ultra-low power optical interconnect for data center communications. 1-4 2017 ICTON https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2017.8024800 conf/icton/2017 db/conf/icton/icton2017.html#HenkerTCOGKPE17 Jan Plíva Mahdi M. Khafaji László Szilágyi Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger Opto-electrical analog front-end with rapid power-on and 0.82 pJ/bit for 28 Gb/s in 14 nm FinFET CMOS. 253-257 2017 SoCC https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCC.2017.8226052 conf/socc/2017 db/conf/socc/socc2017.html#PlivaKSHE17 Rafael Puerta Mikel Agustin Lukasz Chorchos J. Toeski J.-R. Kropp Nikolay Ledentsov Jr. V. A. Shchukin Nikolai N. Ledentsov Ronny Henker Idelfonso Tafur Monroy Juan José Vegas Olmos Jaroslaw P. Turkiewicz 107.5 Gb/s 850 nm multi- and single-mode VCSEL transmission over 10 and 100 m of multi-mode fiber. 1-3 2016 OFC https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7537865 conf/ofc/2016 db/conf/ofc/ofc2016.html#PuertaACTKLSLHM16

Guido Belfiore László Szilágyi Ronny Henker Udo Jörges Frank Ellinger Design of a 56 Gbit/s 4-level pulse-amplitude-modulation inductor-less vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser driver integrated circuit in 130 nm BiCMOS technology. 213-220 2015 9 IET Circuits Devices Syst. 3 https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cds.2014.0240 db/journals/iet-cds/iet-cds9.html#BelfioreSHJE15

László Szilágyi Guido Belfiore Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger A high-voltage DC bias architecture implementation in a 17 Gbps low-power common-cathode VCSEL driver in 80 nm CMOS. 2385-2388 2015 ISCAS https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2015.7169164 conf/iscas/2015 db/conf/iscas/iscas2015.html#SzilagyiBHE15 László Szilágyi Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger A 0.68 pJ/bit inductor-less optical receiver for 20 Gbps with 0.0025 mm2 area in 28 nm CMOS. 35-39 2015 SoCC https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCC.2015.7406905 conf/socc/2015 db/conf/socc/socc2015.html#SzilagyiHE15 László Szilágyi Ronny Henker Frank Ellinger An inductor-less ultra-compact transimpedance amplifier for 30 Gbps in 28 nm CMOS with high energy-efficiency. 957-960 2014 MWSCAS https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSCAS.2014.6908575 conf/mwscas/2014 db/conf/mwscas/mwscas2014.html#SzilagyiHE14 Mikel Agustin H. Aminpour Xin An Guido Belfiore Karlheinz Bock Mircea Catuneanu Alessandro Cevrero Lukasz Chorchos Waltenegus Dargie Franz Alwin Dürrwald I. Eddie Frank Ellinger Maximilian Froitzheim Michael Georgiades Alexandru Giuglea L. Halmo R. Hosseini Kambiz Jamshidi M. Jazayerifar Udo Jörges Mahdi M. KhafajiMohammad Mahdi Khafaji J.-R. Kropp Eythimios N. Lallas Nikolay N. LedentsovNikolai N. Ledentsov Nikolay Ledentsov Jr. Juerg Leuthold Idelfonso Tafur Monroy Thomas Morf Niels Neumann Krzysztof Nieweglowski Bert J. Offrein Juan Jose Vegas OlmosJuan José Vegas Olmos Ilter ÖzkayaIlter Oezkaya Despoina Petousi Dirk Plettemeier Jan Plíva Florian Protze Rafael Puerta Laurent Schares David Schoeniger M. Seifried V. A. Shchukin László Szilágyi Christos A. Thraskias J. Toeski Thomas Toifl Ioannis Tomkos Jaroslaw P. Turkiewicz Georg Winzer Lars Zimmermann M. Zoldak