A 5GHz CMOS voltage-current feedback wide-band transimpedance amplifier for optical transceivers

Author

Hasan, S. M Rezaul

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

567

Abstract

This paper describes an inductively peaked 5GHz novel CMOS voltage-current feed-back transimpedance amplifier using TSMC 0.18μm 5M2P 3V Digital CMOS process technology. The bandwidth of the amplifier was extended using the inductive peaking technique, and, simulation results indicated a a -3db bandwidth of around 4.7GHz with a transimpedance gain of 50dB ohms. The amplifier features wide input dynamic range with automatic gain control. The average output noise voltage spectral density was 5nV/sqrt(Hz) (with a peak of ≈9nV/sqrt(Hz)), while, the input referred noise current spectral density was below 80pA/sqrt(Hz) within the amplifier frequency band.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; feedback amplifiers; frequency response; integrated optoelectronics; operational amplifiers; optical communication equipment; transceivers; wideband amplifiers; 5 GHz; CMOS transimpedance amplifier; SPICE simulations; amplifier bandwidth; automatic gain control; closed-loop gain; complex poles; frequency response; inductively peaked transimpedance amplifier; input noise current spectral density; optical transceiver; output noise voltage spectral density; transimpedance gain; voltage-current feedback amplifier; wide input dynamic range; wideband amplifier; Bandwidth; Broadband amplifiers; CMOS process; CMOS technology; Optical amplifiers; Optical feedback; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Transceivers; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2003. ICECS 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 10th IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8163-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2003.1301848

Filename

1301848