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Co-design of differential transimpedance amplifier and balanced photodetector for sub-pJ/bit silicon photonics receiver

Co-design of differential transimpedance amplifier and balanced photodetector for sub-pJ/bit silicon photonics receiver
Co-design of differential transimpedance amplifier and balanced photodetector for sub-pJ/bit silicon photonics receiver
This paper presents the design and implementation of a fully differential optical receiver, which is aimed for short reach intensity modulation and direct detection (IMDD) transceiver links. A Si-Ge balanced photodetector (PD) has been co-designed and packaged with a novel differential transimpedance amplifier (TIA). The TIA design is realized with a standard 28nm CMOS process and operates with a standard digital supply (1V). Without using any equalization or DSP techniques, the proposed receiver can operate up to 54Gb/s with a BER less than the KP4 limit (2.2×10-4) under an optical modulation amplitude (OMA) of -8.6dBm, while the power efficiency has been optimized to 0.55pJ/bit (0.98pJ/bit if output buffer is included).
transimpedance amplifier, photodetector, Silicon photonics
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14038-14054
Li, Ke
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Liu, Shenghao
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Hong, Yang
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Yang, Fan
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Zhang, Weiwei
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Zhang, Fan
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Reed, Graham
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Li, Ke
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Yang, Fan
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Zhang, Lei
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Lacava, Cosimo
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Meng, Fanfan
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Li, Ke, Liu, Shenghao, Ruan, Xiaoke, Thomson, David, Hong, Yang, Yang, Fan, Zhang, Lei, Lacava, Cosimo, Meng, Fanfan, Zhang, Weiwei, Petropoulos, Periklis, Zhang, Fan and Reed, Graham (2020) Co-design of differential transimpedance amplifier and balanced photodetector for sub-pJ/bit silicon photonics receiver. Optics Express, 28 (9), 14038-14054. (doi:10.1364/OE.389889).

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Abstract

This paper presents the design and implementation of a fully differential optical receiver, which is aimed for short reach intensity modulation and direct detection (IMDD) transceiver links. A Si-Ge balanced photodetector (PD) has been co-designed and packaged with a novel differential transimpedance amplifier (TIA). The TIA design is realized with a standard 28nm CMOS process and operates with a standard digital supply (1V). Without using any equalization or DSP techniques, the proposed receiver can operate up to 54Gb/s with a BER less than the KP4 limit (2.2×10-4) under an optical modulation amplitude (OMA) of -8.6dBm, while the power efficiency has been optimized to 0.55pJ/bit (0.98pJ/bit if output buffer is included).

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Accepted/In Press date: 26 March 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 March 2020
Published date: 27 April 2020
Keywords: transimpedance amplifier, photodetector, Silicon photonics
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Local EPrints ID: 439443
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/439443
DOI: doi:10.1364/OE.389889
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: 9552b35a-35d9-4218-bfb1-eef7976bc4b5
ORCID for Cosimo Lacava: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9950-8642
ORCID for Periklis Petropoulos: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-8034

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Date deposited: 23 Apr 2020 16:30
Last modified: 31 Jul 2020 01:41

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Author: Ke Li
Author: Shenghao Liu
Author: Xiaoke Ruan
Author: David Thomson
Author: Yang Hong
Author: Fan Yang
Author: Lei Zhang
Author: Cosimo Lacava ORCID iD
Author: Fanfan Meng
Author: Weiwei Zhang
Author: Periklis Petropoulos ORCID iD
Author: Fan Zhang
Author: Graham Reed

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