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CMOS Optical Preamplifier Design Using Graphical Circuit Analysis

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nal-flow graph of a general feedback amplifier.<br />

4.4 Determining Port Impedances 92<br />

To explain Blackman’s Impedance Formula, consider the feedback amplifier<br />

model shown in Figure 4.14. Within the amplifier is a controlled source, w, that is<br />

related to the controlling quantity x by<br />

where k is constant parameter. Although shown as voltages in the figure, the quanti-<br />

ties w and x may represent either voltages or currents. As initially presented in Sec-<br />

tion 2.4, Blackman’s Impedance Formula states that the impedance at a port of a<br />

feedback amplifier is given by<br />

where<br />

T sc<br />

Z port<br />

i p<br />

w = kx<br />

v p<br />

---- Z° 1 T + sc<br />

= = ------------------<br />

1 + T oc<br />

(4.12)<br />

• is the return ratio with reference to controlled source w when the port is<br />

shorted to ground,<br />

• T oc is the return-ratio when the port is open-circuited, and<br />

• Z° is the open-loop impedance, defined as the measured port impedance<br />

when the internal feedback is disabled, either by forcing the controlled source<br />

w to zero or equivalently by setting the parameter k to zero.<br />

i p<br />

v p<br />

Feedback Amplifier<br />

Controlled source<br />

in<br />

out<br />

x<br />

w= kx<br />

Figure 4.14 Feedback amplifier model.<br />

In DPI/SFG analysis, the port impedance is determined by applying a test cur-<br />

rent, i p , to the port of interest and measuring the resulting voltage, v p . The SFG for<br />

the feedback amplifier is shown in Figure 4.15. The graph is complete in that all<br />

possible interactions between the port and the controlled source have been repre

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