2.5 Gb/s DC coupled retimed optical transducer with a dynamic reference voltage comparator

Author

Ramakrishnan, Vinodkumar ; Albers, J.N. ; Nottenburg, R.N. ; Hillery, W.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Electrophys., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

8

Issue

5

fYear

1996

fDate

5/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

685

Lastpage

687

Abstract

A monolithic broad-band dc-coupled Silicon bipolar optical transducer has been designed to receive and retime uncoded data at rates up to 2.5 Gb/s. The transducer employs a modified feedback emitter coupled logic (FECL) loop to dynamically set reference voltages derived from the "1" and "0" level output signals of the single-ended pre-amplifier for balanced operation of the decision circuit. The pre-amplifier has a nominal sensitivity of -23.1 dBm at 1 GHz.

Keywords

bipolar logic circuits; comparators (circuits); decision circuits; emitter-coupled logic; integrated optoelectronics; optical receivers; reference circuits; timing circuits; 2.5 Gbit/s; Si; data retimimg; decision circuit; dynamic reference voltage comparator; feedback emitter coupled logic; monolithic broad-band DC-coupled silicon bipolar optical transducer; pre-amplifier; receiver; Feedback loop; Optical coupling; Optical design; Optical feedback; Optical sensors; Output feedback; Silicon; Stimulated emission; Transducers; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.491595

Filename

491595