Radiation-Hard ASICs for Optical Data Transmission in the ATLAS Pixel Detector
Radiation-Hard ASICs for Optical Data Transmission in the ATLAS Pixel Detector
We have developed two radiation-hard ASICs for optical data transmission in the ATLAS pixel detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC): a driver chip for a Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) diode for 80 Mbit/s data transmission from the detector, and a Bi -Phase Mark decoder chip to …