Optical wireless communication using a fully integrated 400 µm diameter APD receiver

Low noise optical receiver using Si APD

Time of flight laser range finding, scanning video imaging and deep space communications are three applications requiring very low noise optical receivers in order to achieve detection of fast and weak optical signal. Avalanche photodiode is the detector of choice for its high quantum efficiency, compact size and reduced electronics complexity. Optimal operating condition in terms of gain and t...

Enhancing the decoding performance of optical wireless communication systems using receiver-side predistortion.

White light emitting diodes (LEDs) have been widely utilized for illumination owing to their desired properties of inherent bright output, high efficiency, low power consumption and long life-time. They are also increasingly applied in optical wireless communications for realizing high data rate transmission. This paper presents an improved scheme relying on the insertion of a simple predistort...

A fully integrated IQ-receiver for NMR microscopy.

We present a fully integrated CMOS receiver for micro-magnetic resonance imaging together with a custom-made micro-gradient system. The receiver is designed for an operating frequency of 300 MHz. The chip consists of an on-chip detection coil and tuning capacitor as well as a low-noise amplifier and a quadrature downconversion mixer with corresponding low-frequency amplification stages. The des...

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Fully integrated serial-link receiver with optical interface for long-haul display interconnects

We report a fully integrated serial-link receiver with optical interface fabricated with a 0.18 mm complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology for long-haul display interconnects. The receiver includes a trans-impedance amplifier, a limiting amplifier, a clock and data recovery circuit, 1:64 de-multiplexer and a built-in error checker. The receiver produces 64-bit wide electrical signals...