Wide bandwidth low noise pinFET receiver for high-bit-rate optical preamplifier applications

Author

Tzeng, L.D. ; Frahm, R.E.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Allentown, PA

Volume

24

Issue

18

fYear

1988

fDate

9/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1132

Lastpage

1134

Abstract

A wide bandwidth low noise pinFET receiver has been fabricated and characterised for optical preamplifier applications. The receiver uses a low capacitance planar pin diode as the photodetector. A bandwidth of 7.08 GHz was measured. The measured input noise current for the receiver front-end is lower than 12 pA/√(f). Using a 1.3 μm DFB laser as the transmitter, at a data rate of 4 Gbit/s, the measured receiver sensitivity is -25.5 dBm with a bit-error-rate of 1×10 ^-9. A set of two of such receivers has also been tested in a 1.3 μm polarisation-insensitive optical preamplifier system experiment. The measured receiver sensitivity, including an optical insertion loss of 1.5 dB, is -29.3 dBm

Keywords

digital communication systems; electron device noise; error statistics; frequency response; optical communication equipment; photodetectors; preamplifiers; receivers; 1.3 micron; 1.5 dB; 4 Gbit/s; 7.08 GHz; bit-error-rate; digital transmission; frequency response; high-bit-rate; input noise current; low noise; optical communication equipment; optical insertion loss; optical preamplifier applications; p-i-n device; photodetector; pinFET receiver; planar PIN diode; polarisation-insensitive optical preamplifier system; receiver sensitivity; wide bandwidth;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

Filename

19588