A 0.5 μm SiGe pre-equalizer for 10 Gb/s single-mode fiber optic links

Author

El Said, Mohamed ; Sitch, John ; Elmasry, Mohamed

Author_Institution

Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

2005

Firstpage

224

Abstract

A 10-complex-tap T/2-spaced pre-equalizer, intended to equalize a 10 Gb/s duobinary signal transmitted over 400 km of standard single-mode fiber, is described. Fabricated in 47 GHz f_T SiGe technology, it operates at clock frequencies up to 13 GHz (limited by test equipment), occupies an area of 3.9×3.2 mm², and dissipates 3 W from a dual supply of 5 V and 3.3 V.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; FIR filters; Ge-Si alloys; digital-analogue conversion; equalisers; integrated circuit design; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; optical communication equipment; power consumption; 0.5 micron; 10 Gbit/s; 3 W; 3.2 mm; 3.3 V; 3.9 mm; 400 km; 47 GHz; 5 V; BiCMOS technology; CMOS DAC; FIR filter; SiGe pre-equalizer; clock frequencies; dual supply; duobinary signal; silicon germanium pre-equalizer; single-mode fiber optic links; Chromatic dispersion; Clocks; Fiber nonlinear optics; Finite impulse response filter; Germanium silicon alloys; High speed optical techniques; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Silicon germanium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2005. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2005 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8904-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2005.1493950

Filename

1493950