Integrated electronic equalizer for dispersion compensation in 10 Gb/s fiber networks

Author

Kakani, Vasanth ; Dai, Foster F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Auburn Univ., AL, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

8-10 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

314

Lastpage

317

Abstract

The paper presents the design of a high-speed transversal equalizer for dispersion compensation in 10 Gb/s fiber networks. The five-tap equalizer is implemented in a 47 GHz SiGe technology. The equalizer circuit is optimized for minimum group delay and maximum bandwidth. With added feedback in the equalizer gain stage, we achieved minimum group delay of 0.7% data period. Polarization mode dispersion compensation has been demonstrated using the proposed transversal equalizer.

Keywords

Ge-Si alloys; circuit optimisation; compensation; delays; equalisers; feedback; integrated circuit design; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; 10 Gbit/s; SiGe; feedback; fiber networks; group delay; high-speed transversal equalizer; integrated electronic equalizer; polarization mode dispersion compensation; silicon-germanium technology; Costs; Delay; Equalizers; Germanium silicon alloys; Integrated circuit technology; Intelligent networks; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Silicon germanium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, 2004. Digest of Papers. 2004 Topical Meeting on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8703-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMIC.2004.1398233

Filename

1398233