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It is important that the optical links are designed to operate most energy-efficiently. In this dissertation, the problem is tacked in two step using two experimentally verified prototype receivers. The first receiver focuses on the design of the analog front-end (AFE) and measured to achieve an OMA sensitivity of -11.6 dBm with an energy efficiency of 0.55 pJ/bit at a data rate of 40 Gb/s. The receiver features a low-noise, low-power, high-gain AFE, achieving an input-referred noise current (INRC) of 0.78 µA rms, an averaged INRC density of 6.4 pA/√Hz, consumes 11.4 mW of power, and provides 87 dBΩ transimpedance gain with a 14.2 GHz bandwidth. A systematic design methodology for transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) was developed based on two-port parameters, enabling efficient exploration of complex TIA architectures, including multi-stage forward amplifiers, and facilitating the identification of optimal design parameters to meet target specifications. The second receiver focuses on the design of sampling stage and clock recovery circuit. The receiver features an energy-efficient time-interleaved sampling stage with improved comparator design, and a low-jitter PLL-based CDR with multi-phase spacing error correction scheme. The receiver was tested electrically with 16 Gb/s NRZ data and achieved a JTOL corner over 10 MHz. The energy efficiency is 2.28 pJ/bit in 16 Gb/s NRZ-mode and is predicted to be 1.12 pJ/bit in 32 Gb/s duobinary-mode."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Design of energy-efficient optical receiver"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Hanumolu, Pavan K","Hanumolu, Pavan Kumar","Schutt-Aine, Jose E","Rosenbaum, Elyse","Dragic, Peter D"],"dc:creator":["Li, Yongxin"],"dc:date":["2024-12","2024-12-06"],"dc:description":["Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01","The student, Yongxin Li, accepted the attached license on 2024-12-05 at 23:46.","The student, Yongxin Li, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2024-12-05 at 23:58.","This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2024-12-06 at 14:01.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #21522 on 2025-03-28 at 14:44:46","With the demand for data rates growing exponentially, the usage of optical links is expanding at a fast speed. 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