Design and performance of clock recovery GaAs ICs for high-speed optical communication systems

Author

Imai, Yuhki ; Sano, Eiichi ; Nakamura, Makoto ; Ishihara, Noboru ; Kikuchi, Hiroyuki ; Ono, Takashi

Author_Institution

NTT LSI Lab., Atsugi, Japan

Volume

41

Issue

5

fYear

1993

fDate

5/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

745

Lastpage

751

Abstract

Design and performance of clock-recovery GaAs ICs are presented. Four kinds of ICs were developed: a limiting amplifier, a tuning amplifier, a rectifier, and a differentiator. The cascaded limiting amplifier together with a tuning amplifier achieved a 58-dB gain and a 10-degree phase deviation with 20-dB input dynamic range at 10 GHz. A clock-recovery circuit successfully extracts a low-jitter 10-GHz clock signal of 1-dBm constant power from 10-Gb/s NRZ pseudorandom bit streams using a pulse pattern generator

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; MMIC; Schottky gate field effect transistors; differentiating circuits; digital communication systems; field effect integrated circuits; gallium arsenide; microwave amplifiers; optical communication equipment; rectifying circuits; tuning; 10 GHz; 10 Gbit/s; 58 dB; GaAs; MESFET circuits; NRZ pseudorandom bit streams; cascaded limiting amplifier; clock recovery GaAs ICs; differentiator; high-speed optical communication systems; pulse pattern generator; rectifier; tuning amplifier; Circuit optimization; Clocks; Dynamic range; Gallium arsenide; Optical signal processing; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse circuits; Pulse generation; Rectifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.234506

Filename

234506