A 64 Gb/s PAM-4 Linear Optical Receiver

Bart Moeneclaey, Giannis Kanakis, Jochen Verbrugghe, Nikos Iliadis, Wouter Soenen, Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis, Christos Spatharakis, Stefanos Dris, Xin Yin, Paraskevas Bakopoulos,

Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2015 · 25 citations · 6 references

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We present a linear optical receiver realized on 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS. Error-free operation assuming FEC is shown at bitrates up to 64 Gb/s (32 Gbaud) with 165 mW power consumption, corresponding to 2.578 pJ/bit.

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