Abstract

One of the challenges in using high speed fiber optic links in computer communications is the recovery of the low level, high speed, electrical signals generated in the photodiode. Not only is high frequency, low noise amplification needed but a very small coupling loop between the detector and amplifier is required to reduce the noise coupled inductively from nearby circuits. Indeed, as the data rate goes up this noise increases as the square of the frequency.

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