This chapter presents one of the primary contributions of this dissertation: a mathematical model to analyze and evaluate noise-like spectrum-sliced systems which employ conventional PIN receivers, or as proposed in this dissertation, optical preamplifier receivers. As discussed in previous chapters, spectrum-slicing provides a low-cost alternative to the use of multiple coherent lasers for WDM...

The design of high gain, wide dynamic range op-amps for switched-capacitor circuits has become increasingly challenging with the migration of designs to scaled CMOS technologies. The reduced power supply voltages and the low intrinsic device gain in scaled technologies offset some of the benefits of the reduced device parasitics. An alternative comparator-based switched-capacitor circuit (CBSC)...

The system architecture and test results of the custom circuits and beam test system for the Multiplicity-Vertex Detector (MVD) for the PHENIX detector collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are presented in this paper. The final detector per-channel signal processing chain will consist of a preamplifier-gain stage, a current-mode This paper presents measurements of the pro...