A monolithically integrated optical receiver with a silicon avalanche photodetector for fiber-wireless IEEE 802.11 WLAN applications

Author

Lee, Myung-Jae ; Youn, Jin-Sung ; Rücker, Holger ; Choi, Woo-Young

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

18-21 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

61

Lastpage

64

Abstract

We present a monolithically integrated optical receiver fabricated with standard silicon processing technology for fiber-wireless IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. The receiver contains a silicon avalanche photodetector and a transimpedance amplifier and has up to 5.6-GHz photodetection bandwidth. Using this integrated optical receiver, transmission of 54-Mb/s WLAN signals at 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz bands is successfully achieved with 2.6-% and 3.0-% error vector magnitude, respectively.

Keywords

avalanche photodiodes; elemental semiconductors; operational amplifiers; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre amplifiers; optical receivers; photodetectors; silicon; wireless LAN; Si; bit rate 54 Mbit/s; error vector magnitude; fiber-wireless IEEE 802.11 WLAN; frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency 5 GHz; monolithically integrated optical receiver; photodetection bandwidth; silicon avalanche photodetector; standard silicon processing technology; wireless local area network; Adaptive optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical receivers; Silicon; Wireless LAN; Avalanche photodetector (APD); IEEE 802.11; fiber-wireless; microwave photonics; optical receiver; radio over fiber; silicon photodetector; wireless local area network (WLAN);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2011 International Topical Meeting on & Microwave Photonics Conference, 2011 Asia-Pacific, MWP/APMP

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-716-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2011.6088669

Filename

6088669