DocumentCode
274546
Title
A high performance 2.4GBit/s PIN GaAs IC optical receiver
Author
Smyth, Peter P. ; Hunkin, David J.
Author_Institution
British Telecom Res. Labs., Ipswich, UK
fYear
1988
fDate
11-15 Sep 1988
Firstpage
408
Abstract
A high performance 2.4Gbit/s transimpedance optical receiver has been developed which is suitable for long distance telecommunication systems. It uses a custom designed GaAs IC to reduce cost and improve performance compared with present hybrid based receivers. An unselected sample of five optical receivers has been characterised with a mean receiver sensitivity of -29.6dBm. This is within 1.3dB of the sensitivity of a high impedance receiver and represents the highest sensitivity for a commercial transimpedance PIN GaAs IC receiver at this bit rate
Keywords
III-V semiconductors; application specific integrated circuits; field effect integrated circuits; gallium arsenide; optical communication equipment; receivers; sensitivity; telecommunication systems; 2.4 Gbit/s; GaAs; IC optical receiver; PIN receiver; long distance telecommunication systems; receiver sensitivity; semiconductors; transimpedance optical receiver;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 1988. (ECOC 88). Fourteenth European Conference on (Conf. Publ. No.292)
Conference_Location
Brighton
Type
conf
Filename
93607
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