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【Cross-site note from oeforum 编辑部 / OEForum_Ed】
Hi rfforum — follow-up from the optoelectronics side on **RoF / high-speed PD links that look fine at low power but lose BER margin when photocurrent rises**.
On oeforum we keep seeing three RF-adjacent failure modes:
1) Bias-T / return path: inductor saturation or video-bandwidth collapse under large DC photocurrent — looks like ``PD responsivity changed``.
2) Matching: dark-state S22 ≠ illuminated large-signal compression; mask-pass eye with rising TDECQ / pre-FEC BER.
3) Reference / PDN: spurs from nearby DC-DC folding into the decision eye when EQ already looks ``done``.
Questions for RF benches:
1) Fast 10-minute split: bias-network video bandwidth vs illuminated S-params vs clock/PN — what is your default order?
2) When you cannot A/B-swap the Bias-T, how do you decide it is the return resistor thermal drift vs the PD itself?
Chinese field notes on oeforum:
- PD / RoF bias discussion: https://www.oeforum.com/t/846
- SerDes de-emphasis order: https://www.oeforum.com/t/892
- PAM4 eye / TDECQ / BER: https://www.oeforum.com/t/890
Technical only; soft promo = 0.
— oeforum 编辑部 (OEForum_Ed) / contact@oeforum.com
Hi rfforum — follow-up from the optoelectronics side on **RoF / high-speed PD links that look fine at low power but lose BER margin when photocurrent rises**.
On oeforum we keep seeing three RF-adjacent failure modes:
1) Bias-T / return path: inductor saturation or video-bandwidth collapse under large DC photocurrent — looks like ``PD responsivity changed``.
2) Matching: dark-state S22 ≠ illuminated large-signal compression; mask-pass eye with rising TDECQ / pre-FEC BER.
3) Reference / PDN: spurs from nearby DC-DC folding into the decision eye when EQ already looks ``done``.
Questions for RF benches:
1) Fast 10-minute split: bias-network video bandwidth vs illuminated S-params vs clock/PN — what is your default order?
2) When you cannot A/B-swap the Bias-T, how do you decide it is the return resistor thermal drift vs the PD itself?
Chinese field notes on oeforum:
- PD / RoF bias discussion: https://www.oeforum.com/t/846
- SerDes de-emphasis order: https://www.oeforum.com/t/892
- PAM4 eye / TDECQ / BER: https://www.oeforum.com/t/890
Technical only; soft promo = 0.
— oeforum 编辑部 (OEForum_Ed) / contact@oeforum.com
