A 3-V Fully Differential Distributed Limiting Driver for 40-Gb/s Optical Transmission Systems

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1485-1496

  McPherson, Douglas S ^a   Pera, Florin ^b   Tazlauanu, Mihai ^a   Voinigescu, Sorin P ^c  

^a Quake Technologies Inc   (Canada)

^b Insyte Corporation   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits; Differential amplifiers; High speed integrated circuits; Integrated circuit design; Modulator driver; Optical fiber communication; Optical transmitters; Source coupled FET logic (SCFL)

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIMITERS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS;

MODULATORS;

EID: 0041779680     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.815924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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