1V, 10mW, 10Gb/s CMOS optical receiver front-end

A 1V, 10mW CMOS optical receiver front-end that achieves 10Gb/s operation is presented. The linear gain is 65.6dBΩ (1.9kΩ) and the optical sensitivity is -13.1dBm for a BER of 1e-12. The receiver is implemented in a 0.12μm digital CMOS process with a core size of 175μm × 250μm. © 2005 IEEE.