10-Gb/s pulse-shaping distributed-based transversal filter front-end for optical soliton receivers

Author

Monteiro, P. ; Borjak, A. ; da Rocha, F. ; O´Reilly, J. ; Darwazeh, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Electron. e Telecoms, Aveiro Univ., Portugal

Volume

8

Issue

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The design and performance of a microwave filter as a signal processor for a 10-Gb/s soliton receiver are described. The work reports, for the first time, a versatile transversal active filtering structure, implemented as a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) and featuring an accurate, yet straightforward, response tuning facility based on DC bias variation and allowing for optimization of the received eye patterns and therefore error-rate minimization. Tests are reported for 10-Gb/s input optical solitons, showing the efficacy of receiver output eye shape variation using the techniques described

Keywords

active filters; circuit tuning; digital communication; field effect MMIC; gallium arsenide; microwave filters; optical receivers; optical solitons; pulse shaping circuits; 10 Gbit/s; DC bias variation; GaAs; MMIC; active filtering structure; distributed-based front-end; error-rate minimization; eye pattern optimisation; microwave filter; monolithic microwave integrated circuit; optical soliton receivers; pulse-shaping front-end; response tuning facility; signal processor; transversal filter; Active filters; Filtering; MMICs; Microwave filters; Microwave integrated circuits; Optical filters; Signal design; Signal processing; Solitons; Transversal filters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8207

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/75.650970

Filename

650970