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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2017
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Zoltan Frasch, Hooksett, NH (US);
Mahmoud Belaid, Woburn, MA (US);
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Abstract
A transimpedance amplifier (TIA) can include an operational amplifier with a programmable compensation capacitor, such as can be used for compensating first transconductance stage of an operational amplifier circuit that can be used in a TIA configuration. This technique is particularly suitable, for example, for an Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) application, which can use variable pulsewidth launch pulses. Based on the pulsewidth of such launch pulses, the bandwidth of an operational amplifier of the TIA can be adjusted, such as to decrease the signal and noise bandwidth when relatively wider pulses are to be used, to improve the noise performance for such wider pulses, and to increase the signal and noise bandwidth when relatively narrower pulses are to be used.