Inno (France)

The first results of an integrated hybrid photo-receiver based on a 850 nm two-terminal (2T) silicon germanium (SiGe) heterojunction bipolar photo-transistor (HPT) for low-cost radio-over-fibre (RoF) applications is presented. A hybrid module was realised with two cascaded low-noise amplifiers of 20 dB total gain and an SiGe 2T-HPT exhibiting a −15 dB opto-microwave gain at 5.15 GHz with a 1.6 GHz bandwidth. A 16% degradation of the error vector magnitude compared with back-to-back measurement for the transmission of a 2 GHz OFDM signal at 3 Gbit/s was measured based on the 60 GHz IEEE 802.15.3c standard transposed at the intermediate frequency (IF) of 5 GHz, according to an IF-RoF distribution mode.