A transimpedance amplifier with a tunable bandwidth in 0.18-μm CMOS

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 498-505

  Chien, Chih Kang ^a,b   Hsieh, Hsieh Hung ^a,c   Chen, Huan Sheng ^a   Lu, Liang Hung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP   (Taiwan)

^c TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bandwidth tuning technique; Bit error rate (BER); Distributed amplifier stage; Fiber optical communications; Intersymbol interference (ISI); Transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs)

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIER; FIBER-OPTICAL; FIBER-OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS;

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTONICS; TUNING;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 77949540713     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2040328     Document Type: Article

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