This invention discloses a single-ended
broadband variable gain amplifier and an optical
transceiver system, relating to the field of optical
transceiver design technology. The single-ended
broadband variable gain amplifier includes a power supply terminal, an input port, an output port, multiple
transconductance circuits, and multiple source degradation networks. The input port receives a single-ended input
voltage signal. By setting multiple parallel-connected
transconductance circuits and source degradation networks corresponding one-to-one with each
transconductance circuit, each source degradation network can independently control the
electrical connection state between the source of its corresponding transconductance circuit and the power supply and ground terminals, thereby adjusting the magnitude of the output current of each transconductance circuit. This, in turn, changes the
total current superimposed on the output port by multiple transconductance circuits, achieving variable
gain adjustment. The technical solution provided by this invention can solve the technical problems of existing single-ended
broadband variable
gain amplifiers, such as poor bandwidth consistency during
gain adjustment, severe
bandwidth limitation due to high-frequency
parasitic capacitance, and high
power consumption of differential structures, which is detrimental to single-ended
signal reception.