An integrated optical receiver for multilevel data communication over large core step index plastic optical fiber

M. Atef; W. Gaberl; R. Swoboda; H. Zimmermann

doi:10.1007/s10470-010-9494-4

An integrated optical receiver for multilevel data communication over large core step index plastic optical fiber

M. Atef, W. Gaberl, R. Swoboda, H. Zimmermann

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Abstract

A BiCMOS integrated optical receiver with high sensitivity and good linearity is presented. An automatic gain control transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and linear post amplifiers are used to maintain a high linearity with multilevel modulation. Using multilevel signaling and large-diameter integrated photodiodes make the presented optical receiver suitable for small-bandwidth high-attenuation large-core PMMA step index plastic optical fiber. A measured sensitivity of -31 dBm (BER = 10^-9) at 250 Mb/s is presented for a binary signal. A data rate of 500 Mb/s and a sensitivity of -25 dBm (BER = 10^-9) are achieved with four-level pulse amplitude modulation (4-PAM). An error-free transmission over 40 m PMMA step index plastic optical fiber was achieved at 500 Mb/s using 4-PAM signaling with the presented multilevel optical receiver.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-9
Number of pages	7
Journal	Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
Volume	67
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10470-010-9494-4
Publication status	Published - Apr 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Multilevel pulse amplitude modulation
Optical receiver
Plastic optical fiber

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Signal Processing
Hardware and Architecture
Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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