A simple high-speed high-output voltage digital receiver

Author

Williams, Keith J. ; Dennis, Michael L. ; Duling, Irl N., III ; Villarruel, Carl A. ; Esman, Ronald D.

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

10

Issue

4

fYear

1998

fDate

4/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

588

Lastpage

590

Abstract

We present measurements of a simple photoreceiver capable of generating 2.0 V at 19-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ), and 2.0 and 3.0 V at 24 and 10-Gb/s return-to-zero (RZ), respectively, directly from a p-i-n photodiode. Thus, this photoreceiver generates signal levels compatible with high-speed logic, clock recovery, and/or modulation with low-V/sub /spl pi// LiNbO/sub 3/ modulators without the need for electrical postdetection amplification. The bit-error ratio (BER) is not compromised with this approach since this receiver generates clean eye diagrams with a BER of 10/sup -9/ with -30-dBm input at 10 Gb/s.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical receivers; p-i-n photodiodes; photodetectors; 10 Gbit/s; 15 Gbit/s; 2 V; 3 V; Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero; LiNbO/sub 3/; bit-error ratio; clean eye diagrams; clock recovery; electrical postdetection amplification; high-speed high-output voltage digital receiver; high-speed logic; low-V/sub /spl pi// LiNbO/sub 3/ modulators; p-i-n photodiode; photoreceiver; signal levels; Bandwidth; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical receivers; PIN photodiodes; Photodetectors; Signal generators; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.662603

Filename

662603