10GBase-LX4 limiting amplifier in 0.18 µm CMOS digital process with tunable shunt-peaking

Author

del Pozo, J. M Garcia ; Celma, S. ; Otín, A. ; Aznar, F.

Author_Institution

Aragon Inst. of Eng. Res. (I3A), Univ. of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

fYear

2009

fDate

24-27 May 2009

Firstpage

1851

Lastpage

1854

Abstract

This work introduces a monolithic 10GBase-LX4 limiting amplifier in a low-cost 0.18 mum CMOS digital process intended for optical fiber communications. The proposed configuration includes two inductorless frequency compensated voltage amplifiers. The topology also incorporates a conventional RC network in order to avoid drifts due to matching and temperature between -20 and 80degC. This circuit presents a 200 kHz lower cut-off frequency and a 3.5 GHz higher cut-off frequency with 32 dB gain.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; amplifiers; optical fibre networks; 10GBase-LX4 limiting amplifier; CMOS digital process; fiber-based networks; frequency 200 kHz; frequency 3.5 kHz; gain 32 dB; inductorless frequency compensated voltage amplifier; optical fiber communication; size 0.18 mum; temperature -20 C to 80 C; tunable shunt-peaking; CMOS process; Circuit topology; Cutoff frequency; Network topology; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2009. ISCAS 2009. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3827-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3828-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118139

Filename

5118139