The opto transimpedance amplifier takes the current signal from the Photodiode. The main purpose is to amplify the signal adding as minimum noise as possible and keeping the distortion good enough to not deteriorate the SNDR. The stringent tradeoff between Noise and Bandwidth encourage to explore advanced techniques to improve performances : Triple Resonance Peaking or High frequency Feedforward path for increasing bandwidth.
Chellenges of the coherent communication are linked to high performances for Bandwidth, Noise, and Distortion. This necessity inspires new techniques to elaborate the signal, a possible solution is to use the Liquid Logic: the single amplifier is sliced into multiple elements and each slice is dedicated to amplify only a portion of the input signal. Chellenges of the coherent communication are linked to high performances for Bandwidth, Noise, and Distortion. This necessity inspires new techniques to elaborate the signal, a possible solution is to use the Liquid Logic: the single amplifier is sliced into multiple elements and each slice is dedicated to amplify only a portion of the input signal. You can change the DC operating point of any slice : they can work in parallel toghether (all in the same DC condition) or shifted in order to process different voltage interval of the input signal. In that way it's possible to change the gain setting with less consequences to the distortion degradation at low gain.
Relative recent publications:
L. Aschei, N. Cordioli, P. Rossi, D. Montanari, R. Castello and D. Manstretta, "A 42-GHz TIA in 28-nm CMOS With Less Than 1.8% THD for Optical Coherent Receivers," in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 3, pp. 238-241, 2020, doi: 10.1109/LSSC.2020.3012691.