A SILICON-BIPOLAR AMPLIFIER FOR 10 GBIT/S WITH 45 DB GAIN

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作者
POHLMANN, W
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[1] Alcatel SEL Research Cent, Stuttgart
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10.1109/4.284704
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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A 10 Gbit/s limiting main amplifier for use in optical transmission systems was implemented in an advanced 0.4 mum silicon-bipolar technology. The device has one differential input and two differential outputs. It is mounted and bonded on a softboard carrier for all of the following measurements. The small signal differential gain is 45 dB and the bandwidth is 9 GHz. The output voltage is limited to 400 mV(pp) differential at each output. The minimum input voltage for 1.10(-9) biterror ratio at a pseudo random word of length 2(23) - 1 was measured to be 2.25 mV(pp). The chip area is 1.8 mm x 3.1 mm. The power dissipation is 400 mW at a single supply voltage of - 4V.
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