Optical receiver with widely tunable sensitivity in BiCMOS technology

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1223-1236

  Tadić, Nikša ^a   Zimmermann, Horst ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Current conveyor (CC); Integrated P intrinsic N (PIN) photodiode; Optical receiver; Optical storage (OS) system; Optoelectronic integrated circuit (OEIC); Transimpedance amplifier (TIA); Voltage controlled resistor (VCR)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; CAPACITANCE; CONVEYORS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; PHOTODIODES; RESISTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CURRENT CONVEYORS; CURRENT-MODE SIGNAL PROCESSING; EQUIVALENT RESISTANCE; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED OPTICAL RECEIVER; OPTICAL RECEIVER DESIGN; OPTICAL STORAGES; PHOTODIODE CAPACITANCE; VOLTAGE CONTROLLED RESISTORS;

PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 45549099039     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.916399     Document Type: Article

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