A CMOS Optical Preamplifier for Wireless Infrared Communications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 852-859

  Phang, Khoman ^a   Johns, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambient photocurrent rejection; Cmos optical preamplifier; Infrared wireless communications; Variable transimpendance amplifier

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GAIN CONTROL; PHOTOCURRENTS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AMBIENT PHOTOCURRENT REJECTIONS; OPTICAL PREAMPLIFIERS; WIRELESS INFRARED COMMUNICATIONS;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 0032671133     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.775380     Document Type: Article

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