Skip to main content
Journal cover image

Scaleable CMOS Current-Mode Preamplifier Design for an Optical Receiver

Publication ,  Journal Article
Lee, M; Vendier, O; Brooke, MA; Jokerst, NM
Published in: Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
January 1, 1997

We have designed a process-insensitive preamplifier for an optical receiver, fabricated it in several different minimum feature sizes of standard digital CMOS, and demonstrated design scaleability of this analog integrated circuit design. The same amplifier was fabricated in a 1.2 μm and two different 0.8 μm processes through the MOSIS foundry [1]. The amplifier uses a multi-stage, low-gain-per-stage approach. It has a total of 5 identical cascaded stages. Each stage is essentially a current mirror with a current gain of 3. Three of these preamplifiers have been integrated with a GaAs Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (MSM) photodetector and one with an InGaAs MSM detector by using a thin-film epilayer device separation and bonding technology [2]. This quasi monolithic front-end of an optical receiver virtually eliminates the parasitics between the photodetector and the silicon CMOS preamplifier. We have demonstrated speed and power dissipation improvement as the minimum feature size of the transistors shrink.

Duke Scholars

Published In

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

DOI

ISSN

0925-1030

Publication Date

January 1, 1997

Volume

12

Issue

2

Start / End Page

133 / 144

Related Subject Headings

  • Electrical & Electronic Engineering
  • 4009 Electronics, sensors and digital hardware
  • 4008 Electrical engineering
  • 1005 Communications Technologies
  • 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
 

Citation

APA
Chicago
ICMJE
MLA
NLM
Lee, M., Vendier, O., Brooke, M. A., & Jokerst, N. M. (1997). Scaleable CMOS Current-Mode Preamplifier Design for an Optical Receiver. Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 12(2), 133–144. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008217109255
Lee, M., O. Vendier, M. A. Brooke, and N. M. Jokerst. “Scaleable CMOS Current-Mode Preamplifier Design for an Optical Receiver.” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing 12, no. 2 (January 1, 1997): 133–44. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008217109255.
Lee M, Vendier O, Brooke MA, Jokerst NM. Scaleable CMOS Current-Mode Preamplifier Design for an Optical Receiver. Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. 1997 Jan 1;12(2):133–44.
Lee, M., et al. “Scaleable CMOS Current-Mode Preamplifier Design for an Optical Receiver.” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 12, no. 2, Jan. 1997, pp. 133–44. Scopus, doi:10.1023/A:1008217109255.
Lee M, Vendier O, Brooke MA, Jokerst NM. Scaleable CMOS Current-Mode Preamplifier Design for an Optical Receiver. Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. 1997 Jan 1;12(2):133–144.
Journal cover image

Published In

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

DOI

ISSN

0925-1030

Publication Date

January 1, 1997

Volume

12

Issue

2

Start / End Page

133 / 144

Related Subject Headings

  • Electrical & Electronic Engineering
  • 4009 Electronics, sensors and digital hardware
  • 4008 Electrical engineering
  • 1005 Communications Technologies
  • 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering