Analysis and Design of Transimpedance Amplifiers for Optical Receivers

Appendix L

Acronyms

A/D	analog-to-digital (converter)
AC	alternating current
ADC	analog-to-digital converter
AGC	automatic gain control
AM	amplitude modulation
AOC	automatic offset control (or cancellation)
APD	avalanche photodetector (or photodiode)
APON	ATM passive optical network
ARQ	automatic repeat request
ASD	amplitude spectral density
ASE	amplified spontaneous emission
ASK	amplitude-shift keying
ATC	automatic (or adaptive) threshold control
ATM	asynchronous transfer mode
AWG	arrayed waveguide grating
BCH	Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem (code)
BER	bit-error rate
BERT	bit-error rate test set
BGA	ball grid array
BiCMOS	BJT + CMOS
BJT	bipolar junction transistor
BPON	broadband passive optical network
BPSK	binary phase-shift keying
BUJ	bounded uncorrelated jitter
BW	bandwidth
CATV	community-antenna television
CDR	clock and data recovery
CID	consecutive identical digits
CML	current-mode logic
CMOS	complementary MOS
CMRR	common-mode rejection ratio
CMU	clock multiplication unit
CNR	carrier-to-noise ratio
CO	central office
CPM	cross-phase modulation
CRZ	chirped return-to-zero (modulation)
CS-RZ	carrier-suppressed return-to-zero (modulation)
CSO	composite second-order (distortion)
CTB	composite triple-beat (distortion)
CW	continuous wave
D/A	digital-to-analog (converter)
DA	distributed amplifier
DAC	digital-to-analog converter
DBPSK	differential binary phase-shift keying
DC	direct current