A low-power & low-noise 2.5-Gb/s optical receiver IC in 0.35 μm CMOS

Author

Jalali, Mohammad ; Zarifkar, Abbas ; Emami, Ali ; Soroosh, Mohammad

Author_Institution

Opt. Technol. Dept., Iran Telecommun. Res. Center, Tehran, Iran

fYear

2004

Abstract

In this paper, we report on the design and characterization of an inductor-less, 2.5Gbit/s optical receiver IC in a 0.35μm standard digital CMOS process. For implementation of the receiver a wideband low-noise trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) has been intended along with an AGC circuit to calibrate the TIA´s performance against the variation of input optical power. To resemble the real conditions we try to use a complete physical based PIN photodiode model at the front end of the receiver. Simulation results indicate that the circuit has a power consumption of about 10mW with a 3V power supply. The input noise current density of amplifier has been found out to be less than 2pA/√H.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; automatic gain control; integrated optoelectronics; low-power electronics; optical receivers; p-i-n photodiodes; 0.35 micron; 2.5 Gbit/s; 3 V; AGC circuit; PIN photodiode model; inductor-less optical receiver; low-noise transimpedance amplifier; optical power; optical receiver integrated circuit; standard digital CMOS process; wideband transimpedance amplifier; Broadband amplifiers; CMOS digital integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS process; Optical amplifiers; Optical design; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Photonic integrated circuits; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Electronics, 2004. ICSE 2004. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8658-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMELEC.2004.1620862

Filename

1620862