Integrated high frequency low-noise current-mode optical transimpedance preamplifiers: theory and practice

Author

Vanisri, Tongtod ; Toumazou, Chris

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK

Volume

30

Issue

6

fYear

1995

fDate

6/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

677

Lastpage

685

Abstract

Classical designs of optical transimpedance amplifiers for p-i-n photodiode receiver circuits generally employ common-emitter or common-source input stages. In this paper we explore the design of a new class of low noise “current-mode” optical transimpedance preamplifier based upon common-base input stages. Simulated and measured results of a 10 GHz GaAs HBT and 3.5 GHz BiCMOS common-base input optical transimpedance amplifier are presented

Keywords

BiCMOS analogue integrated circuits; bipolar analogue integrated circuits; feedback amplifiers; integrated circuit noise; optical receivers; preamplifiers; wideband amplifiers; 10 GHz; 3.5 GHz; BiCMOS amplifier; HBT amplifier; broadband operation; common-base input stages; low-noise current-mode preamplifiers; optical transimpedance preamplifiers; p-i-n photodiode receiver circuits; Circuits; Frequency; Integrated optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical design; Optical noise; Optical receivers; PIN photodiodes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.387071

Filename

387071