Patent ID: 7860405

Claim:
Receiver device for optical data signals, in particular optical data signals in the Gb/s range, comprising: an opto-electrical conversion unit, which converts an optical signal, that is received from a source external to said receiver device, to a converted electrical data signal; a frequency filter for the spectral power of the converted electrical data signal, the frequency filter providing a filtered converted electrical data signal; a frequency multiplicator unit, which frequency-multiplies the filtered converted electrical data signal, thereby producing a frequency-multiplied signal; and a clock recovery unit comprising a phased locked loop circuit, wherein the frequency-multiplied signal is used to drive the phase locked loop circuit; wherein the frequency multiplicator unit performs a frequency multiplication by a factor of n, with n being a natural number larger than 2, wherein the frequency filter transmits only around B/n, wherein B is the bit rate of the electrical data signal, and wherein said frequency multiplication is an analog signal processing technique.