An SOI CMOS, high gain and low noise transimpedance-limiting amplifier for 10Gb/s applications

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 357-360

  Pera, Florin ^a   Voinigescu, Sorin P ^b  

^a Innovative System and Technologies Corp (Insyte)   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

10Gb s, transimpedance amplifier; Auto zero DC feedback; CMOS; Limiting amplifier; Optical fiber communication; Silicon On Insulator (SOI)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FEEDBACK; OPTICAL FIBERS; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AUTO-ZERO DC FEEDBACK; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; SILICON ON INSULATOR (SOI); TRANSIMPEDANCE-LIMITING AMPLIFIER (TIALA);

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 33845879133     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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