A DC-coupled low-power transimpedance amplifier architecture for Gb/s communication system applications

Author

Guckenberger, Drew ; Schaub, Jeremy D. ; Kornegay, K.T.

Author_Institution

Cornell Broadband Commun. Res. Lab., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

6-8 June 2004

Firstpage

515

Lastpage

518

Abstract

A DC-coupled transimpedance amplifier (TIA) architecture for optical receiver front-ends with low-power requirements is demonstrated. 12.5 Gb/s performance is achieved for TIAs implemented in 0.25 μm CMOS and 47 GHz f_T SiGe BiCMOS technologies while drawing approximately 1 mA from 1.5 V and 1.8 V supplies, respectively.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; coupled circuits; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit measurement; integrated optoelectronics; low-power electronics; optical receivers; wideband amplifiers; 0.25 micron; 1 mA; 1.5 V; 1.8 V; 12.5 Gbit/s; 47 GHz; CMOS technologies; DC-coupled low-power transimpedance amplifier architecture; SiGe BiCMOS technologies; TIA; communication system applications; integrated optoelectronics; low-power requirements; optical receiver front-ends; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Broadband amplifiers; Character generation; Impedance; Optical amplifiers; Optical buffering; Optical feedback; Optical receivers; Resistors; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2004. Digest of Papers. 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8333-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2004.1320671

Filename

1320671