{"title":"Two high-speed optical front-ends with integrated photodiodes in standard 0.18 /spl mu/m CMOS","authors":"C. Hermans, P. Leroux, M. Steyaert","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIR.2004.1356671","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Two optical front-ends implemented in a standard 0.18 /spl mu/m CMOS technology are presented. They differ mainly in layout topology of the photodiode. The front-end with classical n-well diode achieves a bitrate of 300 Mbit/s. At an input power of -8 dBm, the BER is 2/spl times/10/sup -10/. The front-end with differential n-well diode outperforms the classical n-well topology and reaches bitrates up to 500 Mbit/s. At this speed, an input power of -8 dBm is sufficient to have a BER of 3/spl times/10/sup -10/. Both front-ends consume only 17 mW.","PeriodicalId":294077,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 30th European Solid-State Circuits Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2004-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 30th European Solid-State Circuits Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIR.2004.1356671","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Two optical front-ends implemented in a standard 0.18 /spl mu/m CMOS technology are presented. They differ mainly in layout topology of the photodiode. The front-end with classical n-well diode achieves a bitrate of 300 Mbit/s. At an input power of -8 dBm, the BER is 2/spl times/10/sup -10/. The front-end with differential n-well diode outperforms the classical n-well topology and reaches bitrates up to 500 Mbit/s. At this speed, an input power of -8 dBm is sufficient to have a BER of 3/spl times/10/sup -10/. Both front-ends consume only 17 mW.