Shunt bootstrapping structure for large window optical front-end receiver for free space optic application

• Main Authors: Ramli, A., Idrus, Sevia Mahdaliza, Supa'at, A. S. M.
• Format: Book Section
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2009
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/13100/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292157
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Free space optical link requires photodetector with large detection area. A large window photodetector usually suffers high photodiode capacitance resulting low bandwidth. In this work, a shunt bootstrapping technique was proposed to improved the bandwidth.