Ultra fast response ac-coupled burst-mode receiver with high sensitivity and wide dynamic range for 10G-EPON systems

An ac-coupled burst-mode receiver for 10-Gbit/s class PON systems has been developed by using a novel baseline-wander common-mode-rejection and inverted distortion technique. We achieved a settling time of less than 150 ns and a receiver sensitivity of -29.8 dBm at a bit error rate of 10^-3. This is the fastest value of any reported ac-coupled average-detection type burst-mode receiver for a 2³¹-1 pseudo random bit sequence.