This thesis provides a study on 1.25Gb/s burst-mode receiver design. Firstly, the concept of Passive Optical Network (PON) and the challenges associated with the Optical Line Terminal (OLT) receiver design is addressed in Chapter 1. The fundamental of building blocks in OLT receiver module, including the transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and the limiting amplifier (LA), is provided in Chapter 2. B...

Two different receiver strategies for use with photoelectron emitting optical detectors are evaluated. Upper bounds on error probability are derived both for optical communication with pulse position modulation and for the general problem of detecting the presence of a pulsed optical signal in background light. The Poisson statistics of photoelectron emissions are used to find simple, easily ev...

A full analysis of the combined effects of all the noise sources of optical heterodyne receiver and the interaction between the competing control parameters of the receiver detector and pre-amplifier will be presented. This analysis provides the mean for true optimization of the coherent lidar receiver. The significance of the optimization of heterodyne receiver is shown for 2-micron coherent l...

The possibility of hybrid system construction is considered in this paper. The coherent optical system is the constituent part of this system. The first part of the system is constructed in passband (optical cable is transmission medium), and the second part of the system is constructed in baseband. The heterodyne optical receiver is used as optical receiver. Estimation is not done just after d...

We propose and demonstrate an electrooptic technique for relaying microwave signals over an optical fiber and downconverting the microwave signal to an intermediate frequency at the receiver. The system uses electrooptic phase modulation in the transmitter to impose the microwave signal on an optical carrier followed by re-modulation with a microwave local oscillator at the receiver. We demonst...

Recently, optical interconnect has emerged as a possible alternative to electrical interconnect at chip-to-chip and on-chip length scales because of its potential to overcome power, delay, and bandwidth limitations of traditional electrical interconnect. This thesis examines the issues of variation involved in the implementation of a robust on-chip optical signal distribution network. First, th...

Direct detection optical code-division multipleaccess (CDMA) communication systems involving overlapping pulse-position modulation (OPPM) is considered. Double optical hardlimiters placed before and after the correlator at the receiver side is proposed for this system. The performance (in terms of the bit error probability) of this system is evaluated taking into account the effect of both the ...

A low-power high-speed optical receiver in 28nm CMOS is presented. The design features a novel architecture combining a low-bandwidth TIA front-end, double-sampling technique and dynamic offset modulation. The low-bandwidth TIA increases receiver’s sensitivity while adding minimal power overhead. Functionality of the receiver was validated and the design is compared with a conventional 3-stage ...