40 Gb/s Low-Cost Photoreceiver Employing an Erbium Doped Waveguide Amplifier and Short Planar Multimode PIN Photodiode

A novel low-cost photoreceiver integrating an erbium doped waveguide amplifier and a packaged short planar multimode waveguide PIN photodiode demonstrated -21.2 dBm sensitivity at BER 10 -10 and PRBS of 2 15 -1 for 40 Gb/s operations.