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Burst mode digital data amplifier circuit unit and amplifier circuit

US5955918A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 24, 1997
Grant dateSep 21, 1999
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Expiry dateDec 24, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03F3/087
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An amplifier circuit unit is composed of an offset compensation circuit for equalizing and issuing a DC potential in data input period of one input signal of differential input signals, and a DC potential in data input period of other input signal, and an amplitude limiting amplifier circuit for receiving a differential output signal from this offset compensation circuit as an input signal, and issuing to a differential output terminal as a differential output signal kept in a constant output signal amplitude while amplifying in a linear region. This amplifier circuit unit is connected in cascade in plural stages as required, and is applied to an amplifier circuit of an optical receiving circuit and others.

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