Low-cost and high-performance APD burst-mode receiver employing commercial TIA for 1.25-gb/s EPON

Author

Baek, J.M. ; Kwon, J.W. ; Park, J.W. ; Rhee, D.Y. ; Lee, E.H. ; Lee, J.H. ; Oh, Y.K. ; Jang, D.H.

Author_Institution

Telecommun. R&D Center, Samsung Electron. Corp. Ltd., Suwon, South Korea

Volume

17

Issue

10

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2170

Lastpage

2172

Abstract

A 1.25-Gb/s burst-mode receiver for the application of 32 splits and 20-km transmission in Ethernet-based passive optical network was developed using a general planar type avalanche breakdown photodiode and a low-cost continuous-mode transimpedance amplifier (TIA). The largest loud/soft ratio (27.3 dB) and high sensitivity (-33.3 dBm) were achieved in 896-ns guard band. The minimum automatic gain control (AGC) time of the TIA was obtained without using a high value external AGC capacitor that is needed for the stable continuous operation. The guard time could be minimized while maintaining the burst performances due to the fast laser on-off time of the optical network units.

Keywords

automatic gain control; avalanche photodiodes; capacitors; local area networks; optical fibre networks; optical receivers; 1.25 Gbit/s; 20 km; 896 ns; APD burst-mode receiver; Ethernet; TIA; automatic gain control; avalanche breakdown photodiode; passive optical network; transimpedance amplifier; Avalanche breakdown; Capacitors; EPON; Gain control; Optical amplifiers; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Passive optical networks; Photodiodes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Automatic gain control (AGC) time; Ethernet-based passive optical network (EPON); avalanche photodiode (APD); burst-mode; optical line terminal (OLT); transimpedance amplifier (TIA);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.856450

Filename

1512309