A low noise and broad-band optical receiver for 10 Gb/s communication systems

Author

Kobayashi, N. ; Furukawa, R. ; Ozeki, Y. ; Ushikubo, T. ; Akiyama, M.

Author_Institution

Oki Electric Ind. Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

4-7 Oct. 1997

Firstpage

287

Lastpage

290

Abstract

A low-noise and broadband optical receiver is developed for 10-Gb/s communication systems. This receiver has a high transimpedance of 54 dB Omega and a broadband width of 15 GHz. It operates with an extremely low averaged equivalent input noise current of 7.0 pA/ square root Hz in the 0.5-8-GHz range. From the results of transmission experiments using a 10-Gb/s NRZ (nonreturn-to-zero) signal, a maximum optical sensitivity of -18.0 dBm at a bit error rate of 10/sup -9/ is obtained. The authors report the optical receiver design, the preamplifier performances, the high-frequency characteristics of the PIN photodiode, and the front-end receiver performances.<>

Keywords

digital communication systems; error statistics; optical receivers; p-i-n photodiodes; 0.5 to 8 GHz; 10 Gbit/s; 15 GHz; BER; NRZ; PIN photodiode; bit error rate; broadband optical receiver; communication systems; front-end receiver performances; high-frequency characteristics; low noise; nonreturn-to-zero; preamplifier performances; signal; transmission experiments; Capacitance; Circuits; FETs; Gallium arsenide; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; PIN photodiodes; Preamplifiers; Variable structure systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit (GaAs IC) Symposium, 1992. Technical Digest 1992., 14th Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Miami Beach, FL, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0773-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GAAS.1992.247275

Filename

247275