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  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Vol. 33,
  • Issue 4,
  • pp. 778-786
  • (2015)

A 30-Gb/s 1.37-pJ/b CMOS Receiver for Optical Interconnects

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Abstract

This paper presents a digitally controlled 1-V 30-Gb/s 1.37-pJ/b optical receiver in 65-nm CMOS technology. This receiver consists of an inverter-based inductive transimpedance amplifier, a fully integrated low-dropout regulator, a main amplifier, a three-stage-cascaded continuous-time linear equalizer (CTLE), a two-stage limiting amplifier, and an output driver. The CTLE consists of three cascaded stages with different peaking frequencies (5, 12, and 20 GHz) offering 16 dB of adjustable low-frequency gain to accommodate different photodetector (PD) characteristics. The electrical measurements demonstrate a maximum transimpedance gain of 83 dBΩ (14,125 Ω), an output swing of 300 mV, a −3-dB bandwidth of 24 GHz, and a power consumption of 41 mW. Moreover, optical measurement results with a 28-Gb/s PD show that the receiver achieves 10−12 BER at 30 Gb/s for a 215 −1 PRBS input with a −5.6-dBm input sensitivity. Using a lower bandwidth 14-Gb/s PD, the receiver can still reach 30 Gb/s at 10−12 BER with only a 0.6-dB degradation in input sensitivity, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed receiver and the programmable-cascaded CTLE. The core area occupies 0.26 mm2.

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