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Transimpedance Amplifiers

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Current-to-voltage converters are necessary in optical receivers in order to convert and amplify the weak photocurrent delivered by the photodiode into a strong output voltage signal which is proportional to the input current.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

    Mohamed Atef

  2. Institute of Electrodynamics, Microwave and Circuit Engineering, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Horst Zimmermann

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Atef, M., Zimmermann, H. (2016). Transimpedance Amplifiers. In: Optoelectronic Circuits in Nanometer CMOS Technology. Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics, vol 55. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27338-9_6

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