Title :
High sensitivity 80 Gbps parallel optical receiver for hybrid integrated Ge photodiodes
Author :
Polzer, A. ; Gaberl, W. ; Swoboda, R. ; Brandl, P. ; Fedeli, J. -M ; Kopp, C. ; Vivien, L. ; Zimmermann, H.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electrodynamics, Microwave & Circuit Eng., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria
Abstract :
A high sensitivity 8×10 Gbps parallel integrated optical receiver with transimpedance amplifier followed by limiting amplifier stages and output driver in standard 0.35 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology with low input noise current (407 nA) is presented.
Keywords :
BiCMOS analogue integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; amplifiers; germanium; integrated optics; optical receivers; photodiodes; BiCMOS technology; Ge; SiGe; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; current 407 nA; hybrid integrated photodiodes; input noise current; limiting amplifier; parallel optical receiver; size 0.35 mum; transimpedance amplifier; Bandwidth; Noise; Optical receivers; Photodiodes; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8338-9
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2011.6053724
