AlGaAs/GaAs HBT limiting amplifier for 10 Gbps optical transmission system

Author

Bongsin Kwark ; Moon Soo Park

Author_Institution

Opt. Transmission Sect., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejon, South Korea

fYear

1997

fDate

10-10 June 1997

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

58

Abstract

A 10 Gbit/s limiting amplifier IC for optical transmission system was implemented with AlGaAs HBT technology. Amplifier was designed to support differential input and output. Small signal performance of the packaged IC achieves 26 dB gain and f/sub 3dB/ of 8 GHz. A single output has 800 mV/sub p-p/ swing with more than 26 dB dynamic range. The performance of the limiting amplifier was verified through single mode fiber 320 km transmission link test.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; MMIC amplifiers; aluminium compounds; bipolar MMIC; differential amplifiers; gallium arsenide; microwave limiters; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; 10 Gbit/s; 26 dB; 320 km; 8 GHz; AlGaAs-GaAs; HBT limiting amplifier; differential input; differential output; dynamic range; optical transmission system; single mode fiber; small signal performance; transmission link test; Differential amplifiers; Dynamic range; Gallium arsenide; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Integrated circuit packaging; Optical amplifiers; Performance gain; Photonic integrated circuits; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 1997., IEEE

Conference_Location

Denver, CO, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4063-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.1997.598741

Filename

598741