Current mode circuits for fast and accurate optical level monitoring with wide dynamic range

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E87-B, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2641-2647

  Bauwelinck, Johan ^a   Verhulst, Dieter ^a   Ossieur, Peter ^a   Qiu, Xing Zhi ^a   Vandewege, Jan ^a   De Vos, Benoit ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Active input current mirror; BiCMOS; Burst mode laser driver; Current comparator; Optical feedback loop

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER MODES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTODIODES; POWER CONTROL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSMITTERS;

ACTIVE INPUT CURRENT MIRRORS; BICMOS; BURST MODE LASER DRIVERS (BMLD); CURRENT COMPARATORS; OPTICAL FEEDBACK LOOPS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 5444234290     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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