A comparison of silicon and III-V technology performance and building block implementations for 10 and 40 Gb/s optical networking ICs

International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-57

  Voinigescu, S P ^a   McPherson, D S ^a   Pera, F ^a   Szilagyi, S ^a   Tazlauanu, M ^a   Tran, H ^a  

^a Quake Technologies Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heterostructure technolologies; Output driver; Transimpedance amplifier

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC LINES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; INTERNET; LASERS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; VARACTORS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

HETEROSTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGIES; OUTPUT DRIVERS; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 1542684586     PISSN: 01291564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S012915640300151X     Document Type: Article

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