Circuit arrangement for an optical receiver

Details Circuit arrangement for an optical receiver Circuit arrangement for an optical receiver

1993-04-13

1995-01-17

Mottola, Steven

Amplifiers

With semiconductor amplifying device

Including atomic particle or radiant energy impinging on a...

250214A, 330110, H03F 308

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active

053829204

ABSTRACT:
Optical receivers with a photodiode (PD) and a transimpedance amplifier are optimized for signals with a particular transmission rate. A circuit is provided whereby the optical receiver can be adapted to different transmission rates. To attain this object, the feedback resistor of the transimpedance amplifier is divided into at least two resistors (R.sub.F1, R.sub.F2) connected in series. According to the transmission rate, the respective optimum resistance value is switched into the negative-feedback path with the aid of a control circuit. This makes it possible to operate such a universal optical receiver in a broadband subscriber interface both at a transmission rate of 150 Mb/s and at a transmission rate of 600 Mb/s, for example.

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patent: 3999060 (1976-12-01), Skagerlund
patent: 4608542 (1986-08-01), Siegel
patent: 4939475 (1990-07-01), Prasse
"Lichtwellenleiter-Technik", Pflaum Verlag Munchen, 1986, pp. 282-289 by Dieter Lutzke.
"A Wide-Band Low-Noise Monolithic Transimpedance Amplifier", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-21, No. 4, Aug. 1986.

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