Patent ID: 7596326

Claim:
An optical receiver comprising: a photodetector coupled to an external optical fiber for receiving an optical communications signal and converting it into an electrical signal; a single ended RF amplifier with only one transistor coupled to the electrical output of the photodetector and generating an output signal with distortion; a first inductor coupled to a first capacitor coupled to an input of the single ended RF amplifier; a second inductor coupled to an output of the single ended RF amplifier; a resistor having a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal being coupled to the input of the single ended RF amplifier; a second capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal being coupled to the second terminal of the resistor and the second terminal being coupled to the output of the single ended RF amplifier; and a post-distortion circuit including a Schottky diode connected to the output of the RF amplifier for canceling the distortion in the output signal produced by the RF amplifier, wherein the single ended RF amplifier and the post-distortion circuit are in a single package.