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Entry  Fri Apr 1 14:09:27 2011, Alastair, Electronics, GYRO, Trans PD measured 100_MHz_PD.png
    Reply  Fri Apr 1 14:13:02 2011, Zach, Electronics, GYRO, Trans PD measured 
       Reply  Fri Apr 1 14:31:46 2011, Joker, Electronics, GYRO, Trans PD measured 
    Reply  Fri Apr 1 15:54:28 2011, rana, Electronics, GYRO, Trans PD measured 
       Reply  Fri Apr 1 20:28:23 2011, Alastair, Electronics, GYRO, Trans PD measured 
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Message ID: 1376     Entry time: Fri Apr 1 20:28:23 2011     In reply to: 1375     Reply to this: 1377
Author: Alastair 
Type: Electronics 
Category: GYRO 
Subject: Trans PD measured 

I didn't explain that properly in the last post.  We had set up the PD with a low gain because we need to keep the signal low enough for the mixer.  After putting it together and measuring the transfer function we noticed that there was a large peak at high frequency as Zach mentioned in this post.  Today I went back and remeasured it after removing the 200MHz notch, and then started increasing the gain to see if it would go away.  That is the reason why I have plotted the three different gains.

Definitely we need to keep the gain at >=10.  The issue now is whether we need to reduce the gain somehow (ie reduce the transimpedance using a smaller inductor, or finding a low gain opamp).  Any views?

 

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There is no case in which you can run the MAX4107 or LMH with less gain than the minimum gain of the datasheet. If you look at the time series of the PD with low gain its probably oscillating like crazy.

From the datasheet's Bode plots, you can see how the phase margin is for low gains: bad news.

 

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