Si-analog IC's for 20 Gb/s optical receiver

M. Soda, H. Tezuka, Fumihiko Satô, Takashi Hashimoto, Shigeru Nakamura, T. Tatsumi, T. Suzaki, T. Tashiro

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits · 1994 · 25 citations · 15 references

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Abstract

Two Si-Analog IC's, a preamplifier IC and a decision IC, for a 20 Gb/s optical receiver have been developed using SiGe-base bipolar transistors having a 60 GHz maximum cutoff frequency. The preamplifier employing a dual feedback loop increases the -3 dB bandwidth up to 19 GHz. A decision IC, composed of a gain controllable amplifier with a bias stabilization circuit and D-F/F, operated at up to 20 Gb/s with a 200-mVp-p input sensitivity.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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