Patent ID: 7781720

Claim:
An optical receiver, comprising: an optically opaque housing having an aperture for providing light to an interior of the optically opaque housing; an optical detector having a photosensor for receiving light and an output port for providing a photocurrent; and an integrated circuit having an input port for receiving the photocurrent, the integrated circuit including an integrated amplifier circuit for amplifying the photocurrent and one or more integrated decoupling capacitors coupled to the integrated amplifier circuit; wherein the integrated amplifier circuit and the one or more integrated decoupling capacitors are both directly integrated within the integrated circuit which is formed on a single substrate, the single substrate being made from a semiconductor material; the optical detector and the integrated circuit being mounted within the interior of the optically opaque housing such that the optical detector is proximate the aperture and positioned for receiving light through the aperture; wherein the one or more integrated decoupling capacitors in the integrated circuit are the only decoupling capacitors within the optically opaque housing of the optical receiver.