摘要:
At least two innovations are used to overcome the limitations of conventional transimpedance or high impedance optical receiver front end amplifiers. The innovations are a) multiple stage equalization of a high-feedback resistor, low-gain transimpedance amplifier to obtain high sensitivity, and b) range switching of feedback resistors and equalization capacitors to obtain high overload. With these approaches, it is possible to design an optical receiver operating at the intrinsic limits of available device technology.
摘要:
A lightwave receiver, suitable for CATV applications, includes an input photodiode that is capacitively coupled to the differential inputs of a balanced amplifier. Biasing of the photodiode may be achieved by connecting the photodiode in series between a pair of resistors, with the differential inputs being taken from either side of the photodiode. This arrangement avoids the use of a transformer, which exhibits considerable high frequency loss, thereby avoiding the bandwidth limitation inherent with a transformer.