A low voltage low noise transimpedance amplifier for high-data-rate optical recievers

Author

Abdollahi, Behnam ; Akbari, Pouria ; Mesgari, Baset ; Saeedi, Saeed

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tarbiat Modares Univ., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2015

fDate

10-14 May 2015

Firstpage

1187

Lastpage

1192

Abstract

This paper presents a trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) circuit topology which can be employed in high-data-rate optical receivers. Compared to the conventional regulated cascode (RGC) topology, the proposed circuit requires lower supply voltage and power. Based on the proposed topology, a TIA is designed in a 180-nm CMOS technology. Post layout simulation results show that the circuit can be used in wide band optical communication systems. Consuming 2.3mW from a 1.8 V supply, the circuit has 20 GHz bandwidth and 44.5 dB gain with a 150 fF photo diode parasitic capacitor. The input referred noise of the circuit is lower than 22 pA/√Hz.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; capacitors; field effect MMIC; low noise amplifiers; microwave amplifiers; operational amplifiers; optical receivers; photodiodes; CMOS technology; bandwidth 20 GHz; capacitance 150 fF; circuit topology; gain 44.5 dB; high-data-rate optical receivers; low voltage low noise transimpedance amplifier; photodiode parasitic capacitor; post layout simulation; power 2.3 mW; size 180 nm; voltage 1.8 V; wide band optical communication systems; Conferences; Decision support systems; Electrical engineering; low noise; low voltage; optical receiver; regulated cascode (RGC); trans-impedance amplifier (TIA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2015 23rd Iranian Conference on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1971-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IranianCEE.2015.7146395

Filename

7146395