Scaleable CMOS Current-Mode Preamplifier Design for an Optical Receiver

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-144

  Lee, Myunghee ^{a,c,d,e,f,g,h}   Vendier, Olivier ^b,e,i   Brooke, Martin A ^a,b,e,j,k   Jokerst, Nan Marie ^b,e,k,l  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology ^*

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f Digital Equipment Korea   (South Korea)

^g IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

ⁱ INSA   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

CMOS preamplifier; MSM detector; Optical receiver

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; THIN FILM DEVICES; TRANSISTORS;

CMOS PREAMPLIFIER; METAL SEMICONDUCTOR METAL PHOTODETECTOR; OPTICAL RECEIVER;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0031076434     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008217109255     Document Type: Article

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