Photonics technologies for analog-to-digital conversion at GHz sampling rates

Author

Ng, W. ; Stephens, R. ; Persechini, D. ; Broekaert, T. ; Yap, D. ; Bourgholtzer, S.

Author_Institution

HRL Labs., Malibu, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

200

Abstract

Conceptually, picosecond pulses generated by a mode-locked (ML) laser are ideal vehicles that can help achieve accurate impulse sampling of an analog signal. As illustrated an electro-optic modulator can be used to impress the analog input onto the optical pulse train. After photodetection, the received signal due to the modulated pulse train is sent, in turn, to an electronic quantizer for digitization

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; electro-optical modulation; laser mode locking; microwave photonics; optical pulse generation; photodetectors; GHz sampling rates; analog input; analog signal; analog-to-digital conversion; digitization; electro-optic modulator; electronic quantizer; impulse sampling; mode-locked laser; modulated pulse train; optical pulse train; photodetection; photonics technologies; ps optical pulse generation; Analog-digital conversion; Laser mode locking; Lasers and electrooptics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Photonics; Pulse modulation; Sampling methods; Signal generators; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2000 Annual Meeting. LEOS 2000. 13th Annual Meeting. IEEE

Conference_Location

Rio Grande

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5947-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2000.890745

Filename

890745