Survey of Distributed Amplifiers with >100 GHz Bandwidth and Link-Budget Estimations for Short-Range Wireless up to 0.5 Tbit/s

In this paper, a survey of leading-edge distributed amplifiers is given. The measurements of our CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) and SiGe BiCMOS (Silicon Germanium Bipolar CMOS) amplifiers show bandwidths of 110 GHz and 180 GHz, and gains of 8.5 dB and 18.7 dB, respectively. The link-budget and strategies for short-range wireless communication up to 0.5 Tbit/s are discussed.