Description

The growing use of the Internet has created increasingly higher demand for multi-Gb/s I/O performance. The demand and availability of 10 Gb/s+ WAN bandwidth fuels the growth of native 10 Gb/s infrastructures within MAN and enterprise datacenters.

Features

• Integrated transimpedance and limiting amplifier for serial optical receiver applications

• Receiver sensitivity 20 µApp for 10-12 BER at 10 Gb/s

• Receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) for digital diagnostics and active alignment

• Loss of signal indicator (LOS)

• Optional squelch circuit disables output at low input levels

• Back-terminated 50-ohm CML output providing 250 mVpp differential amplitude

• No external passives required for photodiode bias network

• Single +3.3 V supply dissipating 115 mW

Applications

• 850 nm and 1310 nm receive optical subassemblies (ROSA)

• XFP, X2, XPAC, XENPAC optical modules

• 10GbE, 10GFC, 8GFC, 4GFC, OC-192 VSR

• Proprietary back plane optics