A Current-Mode Gain-Control Scheme with Constant Bandwidth and Propagation Delay for a Transimpedance Preamplifier

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 253-258

  Ruotsalainen, Tarmo ^a   Palojärvi, Pasi ^a   Kostamovaara, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Current mode; Delay stability; Gain control; Transimpedance preamplifier

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ATTENUATION; BANDWIDTH; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; RANGE FINDERS;

TRANSIMPEDANCE PREAMPLIFIERS;

GAIN CONTROL;

EID: 0033079280     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.743791     Document Type: Article

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