10 GHz optical receiver using a travelling-wave semiconductor laser preamplifier |
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Authors: | Marshall I.W. O'Mahony M.J. |
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Affiliation: | British Telecom Research Laboratories, Ipswich, UK; |
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Abstract: | A 1.5 ?m optical receiver with a bandwidth of 10 GHz has been demonstrated. The receiver used a travelling-wave semiconductor laser preamplifier and had an equivalent input noise of 1 pA/?Hz) with a 3 dB bandwidth of 10 GHz. The estimated sensitivity at 15 Gbit/s was ?27 dBm. |
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