A 12-GS/s track-and-hold amplifier in InP DHBT technology

Author

Lee, J. ; Leven, A. ; Baeyens, Y. ; Chen, C. ; Yang, Y. ; Sung, W.J. ; Liu, C.-T. ; Frackvoiak, J. ; Chua, L. ; Kopf, R. ; Chen, Y.K.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

20-23 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

283

Lastpage

286

Abstract

A 12 GS/s track-and-hold amplifier (THA) for a DSP-based electrical polarization-mode dispersion compensator (e-PMDC) in a 10 GHz optical receiver, featuring a total harmonic distortion (THD) compatible with 6 bit operation on 1 V/sub p-p/ differential input range at -5.2 V supply, has been designed and fabricated in InP/InGaAs/InP double-heterojunction bipolar transistor (DHBT) technology. This THA shows a THD of better than -23 dB for 12 GHz 1 V/sub p-p/ input, corresponding 4 bit resolution, under a differential clock of 12 GHz.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; amplifiers; bipolar integrated circuits; compensation; gallium arsenide; harmonic distortion; heterojunction bipolar transistors; indium compounds; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical receivers; sample and hold circuits; -5.2 V; 1 V; 10 GHz; 12 GHz; 6 bit; DSP-based electrical polarization-mode dispersion compensator; InP DHBT technology; InP-InGaAs-InP; InP/InGaAs/InP double-heterojunction bipolar transistor technology; THA; THD; differential clock; differential input range; e-PMDC; optical receiver; total harmonic distortion; track-and-hold amplifier; Differential amplifiers; Indium gallium arsenide; Indium phosphide; Operational amplifiers; Optical amplifiers; Optical design; Optical receivers; Polarization mode dispersion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Total harmonic distortion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit (GaAs IC) Symposium, 2002. 24th Annual Technical Digest

Conference_Location

Monterey, California, USA

ISSN

1064-7775

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7447-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GAAS.2002.1049078

Filename

1049078