Circuits to extend operation data-rate of a optical receiver is investigated in the dissertation. A new input-stage topology for a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) is designed to achieve 50% higher data-rate is presented, and a new architecture for clock recovery is proposed for 50% higher clock rate. The TIA is based on a gm-boosted common-gate amplifier. The input-resistance is reduced by modifying a transistor at input stage to be diode-connected, and therefore lowers R-C time constant at the input and yielding higher input pole frequency. It also allows removal of input inductor, which reduces design complexity. The proposed circuit was designed and fabricated in 32 nm CMOS SOI technology. Compared to TIAs which mostly operates at 50 GHz bandwidth or lower, the presented TIA stage achieves bandwidth of 74 GHz and gain of 37 dBohms while dissipating 16.5 mW under 1.5V supply voltage. For the clock recovery circuit, a phase-locked loop is designed consisting of a frequency doubling mechanism, a mixer-based phase detector and a 40 GHz voltage-controlled oscillator. The proposed frequency doubling mechanism is an all-analog architecture instead of the conventional digital XOR gate approach. This approach realizes clock-rate of 40 GHz, which is at least 50% higher than other circuits with mixer-based phase detector. Implemented with 0.13-μm CMOS technology, the clock recovery circuit presents peak-to-peak clock jitter of 2.38 ps while consuming 112 mW from a 1.8 V supply. / Ph. D. / This dissertation presents two electronic circuits for future high-speed fiber optics applications. A receiver in a optical communication systems includes several circuit blocks serving various functions: (1) a photodiode for detecting the input signal; (2) a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) to amplify the input signal; (3) a clock and data recovery block to re-condition the input signal; and (4) digital signal processing. High speed integrated circuits are commonly fabricated in SiGe or other high electron mobility semiconductor technologies, but receiver circuits based on Silicon using complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology has gained attention in open literatures due to its advantage of integrating signal processing . This dissertation shows a TIA circuit and a clock recovery circuit designed and implemented in CMOS technology. The TIA circuit is based on a ”g<sub>m</sub>-boosted common-gate amplifier” topology, and a slight modification at the input of the topology is proposed. Implemented in 32nm SOI CMOS technology, the TIA measures bandwidth that achieved 100 Gb/s bandwidth. The bandwidth is increased by at least 48% when compared with state-of-the-art CMOS TIA’s. The clock recovery circuit is a phase-locked loop with a mixer as the phase detector. An architectural change of replacing the conventional frequency doubling mechanism is proposed. The circuit is implemented in 0.13 µm CMOS technology, and it achieved 40 GHz clock rate with 40 Gb/s data input, which is about 40% increase of clock rate compared to state-of-the-art clock recovery circuits of similar architecture.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/83608 |
| Date | 21 June 2018 |
| Creators | Chong, Joseph |
| Contributors | Electrical Engineering, Ha, Dong Sam, Wang, Anbo, Lester, Luke F., Yi, Yang, Choi, Seongim Sarah |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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