Front-end circuits for a photonic analog-to-digital converter

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011.

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Main Author: Uyar, Oğuzhan
Other Authors: Vladimir Stojanović.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68510
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spelling mit-1721.1/685102019-04-11T06:24:43Z Front-end circuits for a photonic analog-to-digital converter Uyar, Oğuzhan Vladimir Stojanović. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-80). As the resolution of electrical ADCs gets limited at higher sampling rates due to sampling clock jitter, low-jitter mode-lock laser based photonic ADCs are starting to gain more attention. As well as low-jitter and high-linearity operation at very high speeds, photonic ADCs provide the opportunity to de-multiplex electrical signals to enable the parallel sampling of signals which increases the total sampling speed dramatically. However, even in photonic systems, a careful optimization between the degree of de-multiplexing, the optical non-linearities and receiver front-end noise has to be performed to enable resolution and sampling rate gains to materialize. Electrical components still constitute the bottleneck for a photonic ADC system. Photo-detector front-end, which is responsible for the current-voltage transformation of the samples, is one of the most critical components for the overall linearity, noise and jitter performance of photonic ADC systems. This work focuses on photo-detector front-ends and investigates the performance of several structures as well as evaluating the performance of photonic ADC systems depending on the amount of photo-detector current. Integrator and trans-impedance amplifier flavors of the front-end circuits are designed, implemented, simulated and laid out for 6 ENOB and 10 ENOB linearity and noise performance at 1GS/s. The circuits are implemented on 45 nm SOI process and integrated with on-chip photonic components which allow on-chip and off-chip ADC implementations. by Oğuzhan Uyar. S.M. 2012-01-12T19:33:26Z 2012-01-12T19:33:26Z 2011 2011 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68510 770692212 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 80 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
spellingShingle Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Uyar, Oğuzhan
Front-end circuits for a photonic analog-to-digital converter
title Front-end circuits for a photonic analog-to-digital converter
title_full Front-end circuits for a photonic analog-to-digital converter
title_fullStr Front-end circuits for a photonic analog-to-digital converter
title_full_unstemmed Front-end circuits for a photonic analog-to-digital converter
title_short Front-end circuits for a photonic analog-to-digital converter
title_sort front end circuits for a photonic analog to digital converter
topic Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68510
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