Optical receiver using noise cancelling with an integrated photodiode in 40 nm CMOS technology

Mohamed Atef, Horst Zimmermann

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Abstract

A transimpedance amplifier (TIA) based on an inverting voltage amplifier with a shunt feedback resistor using a noise cancelling technique is presented. The TIA is followed by two stages of differential limiting amplifiers and the last stage is a 50 Ω differential output driver to provide an interface to the measurement setup. The TIA shows a measured optical sensitivity of -20.7 dBm for a BER of 10-9 using an external photodiode (PD). Another chip with the same TIA and an integrated N+/Psub PD is also introduced. The optical receiver achieves a measured transimpedance gain of 78 dBΩ, 1.5 GHz bandwidth and a measured input referred noise current density of 7.2 pA/√Hz up to 1.5 GHz. The power consumption of the TIA is only 4.1 mW and the complete chip dissipates 12 mW for a single 1 V supply voltage.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6461107
Pages (from-to)1929-1936
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Volume60
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • CMOS integrated circuits,
  • integrated optoelectronics
  • optical receivers
  • photodiodes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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