A. Borjak et al., HIGH-SPEED GENERALIZED DISTRIBUTED-AMPLIFIER-BASED TRANSVERSAL-FILTERTOPOLOGY FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATION-SYSTEMS, IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques, 45(8), 1997, pp. 1453-1457
The use of a distributed-amplifier-based transversal filter as a signa
l processor for high-rate pulse shaping/filtering is discussed, By sho
wing the analogy between transversal filters and distributed-amplifier
topologies, schemes demonstrating practical approaches for the design
of such filters are explored, The practicability of one of the differ
ent schemes is illustrated via an implemented design, A four-stage 40-
Gb/s distributed-amplifier monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MM
IC) is constructed using one of the developed schemes and its behavior
is discussed.