Title :
0.35um SiGe BiCMOS front-end amplifier for 10Gb/s optical receiver
Author :
Fenfei, Hou ; Jingxing, Duan
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Phys. Sci. & Technol., Nanjing Normal Univ., Nanjing
Abstract :
A 10Gb/s front-end amplifier for optical receiver is realized in a 0.35um SiGe BiCMOS technology. It combines a preamplifier and a limiting amplifier and both are realized with differential architecture. The preamplifier is realized as a transimpedance amplifier with common base input stage. The limiting amplifier consist two stages of Cherry-Hooper architecture. The Simulation shows that the amplifier achieves gain of 102.2dB with constant output swing (450 mVp-p) at a bit rate of 10Gb/s.
Keywords :
BiCMOS integrated circuits; optical receivers; preamplifiers; BiCMOS technology; Cherry-Hooper architecture; bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor; front-end amplifier; gain 102.2 dB; limiting amplifier; optical receiver; preamplifier; size 0.35 mum; transimpedance amplifier; Bandwidth; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Circuit noise; Differential amplifiers; Germanium silicon alloys; Optical amplifiers; Optical receivers; Preamplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon germanium;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, 2008. ICMMT 2008. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1879-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1880-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICMMT.2008.4540353
