A 1.25 Gb/s fully integrated optical receiver for SI-POF applications

Author

Gimeno, Cecilia ; Sanchez-Azqueta, Carlos ; Celma, S. ; Aldea, Concepcion ; Cahill, C.

Author_Institution

Electron. Design Group (GDE), Univ. de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a 1.25 Gb/s fully integrated BiCMOS optical receiver for short reach applications through low-cost step index plastic optical fiber. The limited bandwidth caused by the fiber is compensated by a continuous-time equalizer. A low noise transimpedance amplifier with some peaking overcomes the limitation introduced by the integrated photodiode. A post-amplifier has been included to generate the required digital output levels. The design achieves 1.25 Gb/s through 50 m SI-POF with a power consumption of 148 mW and a sensitivity of -16.4 dBm for a BER of 10^-12. Simulation results are provided.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; amplifiers; equalisers; error statistics; optical fibre networks; optical receivers; power consumption; BER; SI-POF applications; bandwidth; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; continuous-time equalizer; digital output levels; fully integrated optical receiver; integrated BiCMOS optical receiver; integrated photodiode; low noise transimpedance amplifier; low-cost step index plastic optical fiber; post-amplifier; power 148 mW; power consumption; Bandwidth; Equalizers; Gain; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Photodiodes; SI-POF; equalizer; front-end; fully integrated optical receiver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), 2013 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Dresden

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECCTD.2013.6662273

Filename

6662273