A bandwidth adjustable integrated optical receiver with an on-chip silicon avalanche photodetector

Jin-Sung Youn; Myung-Jae Lee; Kang-Yeob Park; Holger Rücker; Woo-Young Choi

doi:10.1587/elex.8.404

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A bandwidth adjustable integrated optical receiver with an on-chip silicon avalanche photodetector

Jin-Sung Youn, Myung-Jae Lee, Kang-Yeob Park, Holger Rücker, Woo-Young Choi

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Keywords: high-speed optical receiver, silicon avalanche photodetector, silicon-germanium BiCMOS, transimpedance amplifier

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2011 Volume 8 Issue 7 Pages 404-409

DOI https://doi.org/10.1587/elex.8.404

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A bandwidth adjustable integrated optical receiver having an on-chip silicon avalanche photodetector is realized with standard 0.25-µm silicon-germanium bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology for optical interconnect applications. With the controllable capacitive degeneration technique, the optical receiver bandwidth can be adjusted for the best bit error rate performance.

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