39.4-Gb/s Duobinary Transmission Over 24.4 m of Coaxial Cable Using a Custom Indium Phosphide Duobinary-to-Binary Converter Integrated Circuit

Author

Sinsky, Jeffrey H. ; Konczykowska, Agnieszka ; Adamiecki, Andrew L. ; Jorge, Filipe ; Duelk, Marcus

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ

Volume

56

Issue

12

fYear

2008

Firstpage

3162

Lastpage

3169

Abstract

We show, for the first time, duobinary transmission of 39.4-Gb/s data over a 24.4-m-long 5.2-mm-diameter coaxial cable with SMA connectors, enabled by the design of a custom 40-Gb/s HBT indium phosphide duobinary-to-binary converter integrated circuit (IC). We achieve a bit error rate better than 3 times 10^-12 with a 2¹⁵- 1 b sequence, using clock recovery. The transmission experiment and design of the duobinary-to-binary converter IC are discussed in detail.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; bipolar integrated circuits; coaxial cables; convertors; data communication equipment; heterojunction bipolar transistors; indium compounds; synchronisation; HBT indium phosphide IC; InP; bit rate 39.4 Gbit/s; clock recovery; coaxial cable; duobinary transmission; duobinary-to-binary converter integrated circuit; Coaxial transmission lines; duobinary; equalizers; high-speed electronics; multilevel systems; partial response signaling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMTT.2008.2007430

Filename

4682601