Folded-cascode transimpedance amplifier for burst-mode applications

Author

Schneider, Kerstin ; Zimmermann, Horst

Author_Institution

Inst. for Electr. Measurements & Circuit Design, Technische Univ. Wien, Vienna, Austria

fYear

2002

fDate

18-19 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

294

Lastpage

299

Abstract

A transimpedance amplifier (TIA) designed in a digital 0.18 μm CMOS technology is presented. The photodetection of the 1.3 μm light is done by a ternary PIN photodiode. The TIA is performed as a folded cascode stage with a transimpedance of 1.6 kΩ in the most sensitive case. A sensitivity of -28 dBm for 622 Mb/s at a bit error rate (BER) of 10^-11 and -22 dBm for 1.25 Gb/s at a BER of 10^-10 is achieved.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; differential amplifiers; error statistics; integrated circuit design; optical receivers; p-i-n photodiodes; preamplifiers; 0.18 micron; 1.25 Gbit/s; 1.3 micron; 1.6 kohm; 1.8 V; 622 Mbit/s; BER; CMOS TIA; bit error rate; differential amplifiers; folded-cascode transimpedance amplifiers; optical communication burst-mode applications; optical receiver preamplifiers; photodetection; sensitivity; ternary PIN photodiodes; Bonding; CMOS technology; Capacitance; Circuits; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Photodiodes; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electron Devices for Microwave and Optoelectronic Applications, 2002. EDMO 2002. The 10th IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7530-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDMO.2002.1174974

Filename

1174974