TY - GEN
T1 - A gigabit fully integrated plastic optical fiber receiver for a RC-LED source
AU - Atef, M.
AU - Swoboda, R.
AU - Zimmermann, H.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The presented work describes a plastic optical fiber receiver for gigabit transmission using a resonant cavity light emitting diode (RC-LED). The integrated optical receiver is realized in 0.6μm BiCMOS technology. The main novelty of the presented design is the integration of the equalizer with the optical receiver. A large area Si photodiode is integrated with the optical receiver. The design combines a TIA, equalizer and post amplifier stage followed by a 50 Ω output driver. To minimize power supply noise and substrate noise, a fully differential design is used. A dummy TIA provides a symmetrical input signal reference and a control loop is used to compensate the offset levels. The total transimpedance of the complete receiver chain is in the range of 85dBΩ. The value of the DC gain and the corner frequency of the equalizer can be adapted via an external control voltage to adapt the design to different SI-POF lengths and RC-LED limited bandwidths. The optical receiver operates at a 3.3 V single power supply and the total current consumption is 31mA. The presented optical receiver succeeded to equalize the low-bandwidth transmission system (RC-LED and 50m POF). A data rate of 1Gbit/s can be transmitted over 50m SI-POF with a sensitivity of 13dBm at BER of 10 -9.
AB - The presented work describes a plastic optical fiber receiver for gigabit transmission using a resonant cavity light emitting diode (RC-LED). The integrated optical receiver is realized in 0.6μm BiCMOS technology. The main novelty of the presented design is the integration of the equalizer with the optical receiver. A large area Si photodiode is integrated with the optical receiver. The design combines a TIA, equalizer and post amplifier stage followed by a 50 Ω output driver. To minimize power supply noise and substrate noise, a fully differential design is used. A dummy TIA provides a symmetrical input signal reference and a control loop is used to compensate the offset levels. The total transimpedance of the complete receiver chain is in the range of 85dBΩ. The value of the DC gain and the corner frequency of the equalizer can be adapted via an external control voltage to adapt the design to different SI-POF lengths and RC-LED limited bandwidths. The optical receiver operates at a 3.3 V single power supply and the total current consumption is 31mA. The presented optical receiver succeeded to equalize the low-bandwidth transmission system (RC-LED and 50m POF). A data rate of 1Gbit/s can be transmitted over 50m SI-POF with a sensitivity of 13dBm at BER of 10 -9.
KW - Equalization
KW - Integrated Optical Receiver
KW - Plastic Optical Fiber
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U2 - 10.1109/DDECS.2012.6219028
DO - 10.1109/DDECS.2012.6219028
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84864326907
SN - 9781467311854
T3 - Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, DDECS 2012
SP - 74
EP - 78
BT - Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, DDECS 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, DDECS 2012
Y2 - 18 April 2012 through 20 April 2012
ER -