MONOLITHIC RETIMED RECEIVER ARRAY WITH DYNAMIC REFERENCE LEVEL COMPARATOR FOR 4X2 GB S SYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL-DATA LINK/

Authors
RAMAKRISHNAN V ALBERS JN NOTTENBURG RN HILLERY WJ
Citation
V. Ramakrishnan et al., MONOLITHIC RETIMED RECEIVER ARRAY WITH DYNAMIC REFERENCE LEVEL COMPARATOR FOR 4X2 GB S SYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL-DATA LINK/, IEEE photonics technology letters, 9(1), 1997, pp. 82-84
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
9
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
82 - 84
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1997)9:1<82:MRRAWD>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
A dc-coupled 4-channel synchronous optical receiver with 8-Gb/s aggreg rate throughput has been designed using a monolithic Silicon bipolar I C and an InGaAs p-i-n photodiode army. Each channel employs a positive feedback structure to dynamically generate threshold voltage in the d ecision which enables single-ended-to-differential signal conversion w ithout coupling capacitors or reference voltage subcircuits. Power dis sipation is 865 mW at -5.5 V supply voltage.