Vivek Subramanian

Publications

Patents

  1. 5,067,828 Transferred electron effective mass modulator Issued 11/26/91

  2. 5,834,975 Integrated variable gain power amplifier and method Issued 11/10/98

  3. 5,872,489 Integrated tunable inductance network and method Issued 2/16/99.

  4. 5,880,921 Monolithically integrated switched capacitor bank using micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) technology Issued 3/9/99

  5. 5,959,516 Tunable-trimmable micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) capacitor Issued 9/28/99.

  6. 6,049,702 Integrated passive transceiver section

  7. 6,094,102 Frequency synthesizer using micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) technology and method

  8. 6,232,841 Integrated tunable high efficiency power amplifier

  9. 6,232,847 Trimmable singleband and tunable multiband integrated oscillator using micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) technology

  10. 6,643,346 Frequency Detection Circuit for Clock Recovery 11/4/2003

  11. 7,173,245  Submicron thermal imaging method and enhanced resolution (super-resolved) AC-coupled imaging for thermal inspection of integrated circuits  2/6/2007

 

Book Chapters

  1. A. J. Price and K. D. Pedrotti,"Optical Transmitters" in the CRC Optical Communication Handbook 2nd ed. , J. D. Gibson editor, CRC Press, Salem MA (2002)

  2. K. D. Pedrotti "High-speed Circuits for Lightwave Communications" edited by K C Wang, in Selected Topics in Electronics and Systems- Vol. 13, edited by P K Tien, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 1999. 1-34

  3. A. J. Price and K. D. Pedrotti,"Optical Transmitters" in the CRC Optical Communication Handbook , J. D. Gibson editor, CRC Press, Salem MA (1997)

  4. P. M. Asbeck, M. F. Chang, K. Pedrotti "Future Directions for HBT Development" in Current Trends in Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors, M. F. Chang Editor, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (1996)

  5. Wang, K.; Nubling, R.B.; Pedrotti, K.; Sheng, N.; Asbeck, P.M.; Corcoran, J.; Poulton, K.; Corcoran, J.; Knudsen, K.; Yuan, H.; Chang, C. (Edited by: Chang, M.F.) "AlGaAs/GaAs HBTs for analog and digital applications." Current trends in heterojunction bipolar transistors, Singapore: World Scientific, 1996. p.59-98. xiii+421 pp.

Invited Conference Papers

  1. C. E. Chang, K. D. Pedrotti, A. Price, A. D. Campana, D. Meeker, S. M. Beccue, D. Wu, K. C. Wang, A. Metzger, P. M. Asbeck, D. Huff, N. Kwong, M. Swass, S. Z. Zhang, J. Bowers "40 Gb/s WDM Cross-connect with an electronic switching core: Preliminary Results from the WEST Consortium" (Invited) IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting San Jose, CA, 1997 Paper ThG2, p. 336-337

  2. K. Pedrotti, K. C. Wang, S. Beccue, R. Pierson, A. Price, K. Runge, D. Wu, R. Yu and P. Zampardi "High Speed Circuits for Optical Networks" (Invited) 8th Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications Lerici, Italy Sept. 3-6, 1996, paper #1.7

  3. K. C. Wang, Steve Beccue, M. Frank Chang, Derek Meeker, Ken Pedrotti, Richard Pierson, Alistair Price, Klaus Runge, Paul Thomas, Ruai Yu, Peter Zampardi "HBT Technologies and Circuits for Lightwave Communication"
    Invited Paper IEDMS'96

  4. K. D. Pedrotti, P. J. Zampardi, F. Zucca and K. C. Wang "HBT laser driver array for WDM optical transmitters" (Invited) SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, CA Jan 30,1996

  5. K. D. Pedrotti, "Clock Recovery for High Speed Optical Communication" (Invited) SPIE Photonics West, Vol. CR62 Critical Reviews of Optical Science and Technology, Jan 30, 1996 pp 267-298

  6. K. D. Pedrotti, "III-V Electronic Circuit Technology for Optical Interconnection", (Invited) IEEE Workshop on Interconnections within High-Speed Digital Systems, Santa Fe, NM May 14-17 1995 paper number 2.3

  7. K. C. Wang, Ken Pedrotti, and Klaus Runge "High Speed AlGaAs/GaAs HBT Circuits for Optical Fiber Communications" LEOS'94 Boston, (Invited) paper No. OC2.2

Selected Journal Papers

  1. Ahmet Tekin, Hassan Elwan, Kenneth Pedrotti, “Noise-Shaping Gain-Filtering Techniques for Integrated Receivers” Accepted for publication IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (2009)

  2. John Wood, Ahmet Tekin, Adrian Dave, Kenneth Pedrotti, “Giga-Hertz Rate Single Slope Conversion Technique with 512-Phase RTWO” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing 2008

  3. S. Bandyopadhyay, P. Mandal, S.E. Ralph and K. Pedrotti “TIA-Equalizer for Plastic Optical Fiber based Link” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (2007)

  4. Metzger, A.G.; Chang, C.E.; Pedrotti, K.D.; Beccue, S.M.; Keh-Chung Wang; Asbeck, P.M. "A 10-Gb/s high-isolation, 16*16 crosspoint switch implemented with AlGaAs/GaAs HBT's." IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol.35, (no.4), IEEE, April 2000. p.593-600.

  5. K. D. Pedrotti "High Speed Circuits for Lightwave Communication" International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, Vol. 9, #2 (1998), 313-346

  6. R. Yu, S. Beccue, M.F. Chang, K. Nary, R. Nubling, K. Pedrotti, R. Pierson, K. Runge, N. H. Sheng, P. Thomas, P. Zampardi and K. C. Wang "HBT Devices and Circuits for Signal and Data Processing" Solid-State Electronics Vol. 41 No. 10 pp. 1419-1431, 1997

  7. K. D. Pedrotti, F. Zucca, P. J. Zampardi, K. Nary, S. M. Beccue, K. Runge, D. Meeker, J. Penny, and K. C. Wang, "HBT Transmitter and Data Regenerator Arrays for WDM Optical Communications Application" IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Vol. 30, No. 10 Oct. 1995 pp.1141-1144

  8. K. D. Pedrotti, R. L. Pierson, Jr., N. H. Sheng, R. B. Nubling, C. W. Farley and M. F. Chang "High-Bandwidth OEIC Receivers Using HBTs: Design and Demonstration" IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology Vol. 11, No. 10, pp. 1601-1614 October 1993

  9. K. Pedrotti, S. Beccue, W. Haber, B. Brar, G. Robinson, and M. K. Kilcoyne "16X16 Optical Fiber Crossbar Switch operating at 0.85µm" IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology Vol. 8, No. 9, September 1990

  10. K.D. Pedrotti, G. D. Robinson, and F. Vachss "A novel optical lithographic process for fabrication of sub-half-micron Schottky barrier gate structures." Accepted for publication in the July-August edition of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B. July-August 1989.

  11. K. D. Pedrotti, "Extinction Spectroscopy: A novel laser spectroscopic technique" Optics Communications 62, 250-255 (1987)

  12. K.D. Pedrotti, D. P. Dimiduk,J. F. Young, and S. E. Harris, "Identification and Oscillator Strength Measurement of the 1091 Å Transition in Neutral
    Cs" Optics Letters 11, 425-427 (1986)

  13. K. D. Pedrotti, A. J. Mendelsohn, R. W. Falcone, J. F. Young, and S. E. Harris, "XUV Emission Spectra of Core Excited Levels in Sodium and Magnesium," J. Opt. Soc. of America B 2, 1942-1947 (1985)
Selected Conference Papers
  1. Kenneth Pedrotti, Robert Dahlgren, Jacob Wysocki, J.M. Wincn, Forest Martinez-McKinney, “High Bit Rate Polymer Optical Fiber Links: Design and Demonstration”  Session JThA, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, San Diego March 23-26 (2009)

  2. Hassan Elwan, Ahmet Tekin, Kenneth Pedrotti “A 48-dB continuous Linear-in-dB IF VGA Technique” ISCAS 2009 Taipei, Taiwan May 24-27 (2009)

  3. Robert P. Dahlgren, Jacob A. Wysocki, Kenneth D. Pedrotti, "Aspheric nonimaging concentrators for multimode fiber coupling" Proc. SPIE 7221, Photonics Packaging, Integration and Interconnects, (2009)

  4. A Tekin, Elwan, K. Pedrotti and N. Dogan “Noise-Shaped Post-Mixer Blocker Filter for Integrated Receivers” International Conference on Microelectronics, 14-16 December, 2008 Sharjah, UAE

  5. R. P. Dahlgren and K. D. Pedrotti, "Tolerancing and corner cases in optical simulation," Proc. SPIE 7068, (2008)

  6. R. P. Dahlgren, J. A. Wysocki and K. D. Pedrotti, "Non-Imaging Optical Concentrators for Low-Cost Optical Interconnect," Proc. SPIE 7059, (2008)

  7. R. P. Dahlgren and K. D. Pedrotti, "Methodology to simulation parasitic reflection and birefringence in optical pickup units and sensors," Proc. SPIE 6282, 94-96, (2006)

  8. R. P. Dahlgren, L. Nguyen, J. A. Wysocki, J. M. Wincn, A. Polley, P. J.  Decker, J. B. Wieser, K. D. Pedrotti and S. E. Ralph, "10 Gbps chip-on-board polymer optical fiber links," ICPOF, (2008)

  9. Xi Wang, Ali Shakouri, Jacob Wysocki, Mike Wincn and Ken Petrotti  “Temperature Nonuniformity and Bias-Dependent Thermal Resistance in Multi-Finger MOSTransistors”  Proc. of Electronic Components and Technology Conference, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, May, (2008)

  10. Saurav Bandyopadhyay, Pradip Mandal , Stephen E. Ralph  and Kenneth Pedrotti  “Integrated TIA-Equalizer for High Speed Optical Communication Systems”  21st Internationa Conference on VLSI Design, January 4th-8th , 2008, Hyderabad, India (Best Paper Award)

  11. K. D. Pedrotti, R. P. Dahlgren, J. A. Wysocki, S. E. Ralph, R. J. Gandhi and A. Polley,  "Use of statistical moments for evaluation of far-field patterns," POF World, 2006, June 20-22, 2006 Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, California, USA

  12. S. E. Ralph, A. Polley, K. Pedrotti, R. Dahlgren, J. Wysocki “New Methods for investigating mode coupling in multimode fiber: Impact on high-speed links and channel equualization”  SOFM 2006

  13. Kshitij Yadav and K.D. Pedrotti “Investigation of the High Frequency Operation of Gm-C Integrators for Continuous Time Filters” International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems 2006 (ICCCAS'06), June 25-28, 2005, Gui Lin, China, Vol. 4, Track 8, #08_01_76, ICCCAS 2006

  14. Long Yang and Ken Pedrotti “Close-in Phase Noise of a Digitally Tuned VCO” IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’06) Aug. 6-9, 2006, San Juan Puerto Rico

  15. R. Dahlgren, K. Pedrotti, “Methodology to Simulate Parasitic Reflection and Birefringence in Optical Pickup Units and Sensors, Optical Data Storage Conference, ODS ’06, Montreal, Canada, April 23-26, 2006

  16. K. Pedrotti “Monolithic vs. Hybrid Integration for Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits” IMAPS International Conference on Device Packaging, paper WA14, Scottsdale, AZ March 20-23-2006

  17. H. Basit, J. Wood, K. Pedrotti "Practical Multi-Gigahertz Clocks for ASIC and COT Designs" Design Con 2004 paper TF14 Santa Clara, CA Feb. 2-4, 2004

  18. K. Pedrotti, C. Chang, A. Price, S. Beccue, A. D. Campana, G. Gutierrez, D. Meeker, D. Wu, K. C. Wang, A. Metzger, P. M. Asbeck, D. Huff, N. Kwong, M. Swass, S. Z. Zhang, J. Bowers, "WEST 120 Gb/s 3x3 wavelength division multiplexed crossconnect" Optical Fiber Communications Conference 1998, San Jose, CA paper TuJ7

  19. A. Metzger, C. E. Chang, P. M. Asbeck, K. C. Wang, K. Pedrotti, A. Price, A. Campana, D. Wu, J. Liu and S. Beccue "A 10Gb/s 12x12 Cross-Point Switch Implemented with AlGaAs/GaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors" 1997 GaAs IC Symposium

  20. J. Gamelin, M. Goodman, J. Jackel, B. Pathak, G. K. Chang, W. J. Tomlinson, R. Cordell, C. E. Zah, T. P. Lee, C. Brakett, Bellcore, C. Dreze, D. Pollex, J. Sitch, H. Willemsen, Bell Northern Research, K. Pedrotti, K. C. Wang, Rockwell Science Center, R. Walden, W. Stanchina, Hughes Research Labs, D. Fritz, R. Ade, R. Hobbs, UTP, R. Haigh, K. McCammon, W. Lennon, Lawrence Livermore National Labs "8-Channel reconfigurable WDM networking demonstration with wavelength translation and electronic multicasting at 2.5 Gbit/s" Optical Fiber Communication Conference, San Jose Feb. 29, 1995, Postdeadline paper PD29

  21. C. Dreze, D. Pollex, John Sitch (BNR); B. Walden, Y. M. Xie (Hughes Research Labs); K. Pedrotti (Rockwell Science Center); C. E. Zah and M. Goodman (Bellcore) "Multiwavelength High-Speed ADD/Drop Network Access Module" Postdeadline Paper, IEEE LEOS Annual meeting, San Francisco (1995)

  22. K. D. Pedrotti, F. Zucca, P. J. Zampardi, K. Nary, S. M. Beccue, K. Runge, D. Meeker J. Penny and K. C. Wang "HBT Transmitter and Data Regenerator Arrays for WDM Optical Communications Application" GaAs IC Symposium October 16-19, 1994 paper H.4 pp. 197-200

  23. K. D. Pedrotti, C. W. Seabury and R. L. Pierson "20-Channel Hybrid Optical Receiver for Free-Space Optical Interconnection" IEEE LEOS Hybrid Optoelectronic Integration and Packaging Meeting Santa Barbara, CA July 26, 1993

  24. K. D. Pedrotti, C. W. Seabury, N. H. Sheng, C. P. Lee, R. Agarwal, A. D. M. Chen, D. Renner "6-GHz operation of a flip-chip mounted 1.3-µm laser diode on an AlGaAs/GaAs HBT laser driver circuit" ThJ7 Proceedings of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference San Jose, CA (Feb. 1992)

  25. K. D. Pedrotti, R.L.Pierson Jr., R. B. Nubling, C. W. Farley, E. A. Sovero, M. F. Chang. "Ultra-high-speed PIN/HBT Monolithic OEIC Photoreceiver" 1991 Device Research Conference, Boulder Colorado (June 1991) paper VA-2

  26. K. Pedrotti, S. Beccue, W. Haber, B. Brar, G. Robinson, and M. K. Kilcoyne "16X16 Optical Fiber Crossbar Switch operating at 0.85µm" WB4 Proceedings of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference San Francisco, CA (Jan. 1990)

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