Abstract

Interactions between system components, both in the optical domain and in the electrical domain, become a major concern in a dense optical interconnectenvironment.¹ In addition to the thermal noise, signals from different channels can interfere with each other either through parasitic capacitance between adjacent channels or through the sharing of a common power supply. Optical receiver design for such an environment thus requires minimizing the combined thermal noise and coupling noise.

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