A Photonic Analog-to-Digital Converter Based on an Unbalanced Mach-Zehnder Quantizer

Author

Sarantos, Chris ; Dagli, Nadir

Author_Institution

California Univ., Santa Barbara

fYear

2007

fDate

3-5 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

61

Abstract

A Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) based analog to digital converter (ADC) design is described. A single high speed unbalanced modulator is utilized as a quantizer. The signal to be digitized is applied to a single electrode. The rest of the system consists of commercially available, well developed wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) components. Analysis indicates that this system could provide 6 bits of resolution at 40 giga samples per second (GS/s) with moderate optical power.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; quantisation (signal); wavelength division multiplexing; Mach-Zehnder modulator; Mach-Zehnder quantizer; WDM components; high speed unbalanced modulator; photonic analog-to-digital converter; wavelength division multiplexing components; word length 6 bit; Analog-digital conversion; Arrayed waveguide gratings; High speed optical techniques; Optical interferometry; Optical receivers; Optical waveguides; Sampling methods; Transfer functions; Voltage; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2007 IEEE International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1167-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1168-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2007.4378135

Filename

4378135