Y. Miyamoto et al., 40 GBIT S HIGH-SENSITIVITY OPTICAL RECEIVER WITH UNI-TRAVELING-CARRIER PHOTODIODE ACTING AS DECISION IC DRIVER/, Electronics Letters, 34(2), 1998, pp. 214-215
The authors demonstrate a 40Gbit/s simple optical receiver that uses a
uni-travelling-carrier photodiode as a decision IC driver. The photod
iode drives the decision circuit directly with 1 Vp-p without any elec
trical amplifier. Receiver sensitivity of -27.8dBm was obtained at 40G
bit/s.