Title :
A burst mode, packet receiver with precision reset and automatic dark level compensation for optical bus communications
Author :
Swartz, R.G. ; Ota, Y. ; Tarsia, M.J. ; Archer, V.D.
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes a burst mode amplifier for packet mode, optical bus applications in the range of 1 Mb/s to 50 Mb/s. The circuit establishes an instantaneous logic threshold at the beginning of an optical data burst, handling photo-data packets differing by much as 50:1 in amplitude and separated by <145 ns, and with background light levels up to 100 times larger than the data signal.
Keywords :
data communication equipment; detector circuits; digital communication systems; error compensation; optical receivers; pulse amplifiers; 1 to 50 Mbit/s; automatic dark level compensation; burst mode amplifier; burst mode packet receiver; optical bus communications; precision reset; Data communication; Digital communication; Optical fiber receivers; Peak detectors; Pulse amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Circuits, 1993. Digest of Technical Papers. 1993 Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto, Japan
DOI :
10.1109/VLSIC.1993.920540
