Title :
A 16-fs aperture-jitter photonic ADC: 7.0 ENOB at 40 GHz
Author :
Nejadmalayeri, Amir H. ; Grein, Matthew ; Khilo, Anatol ; Wang, Jade P. ; Sander, Michelle Y. ; Peng, Michael ; Sorace, Cheryl M. ; Ippen, Erich P. ; Kärtner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
A photonic ADC based on balanced detection, phase encoded optical sampling, wavelength multiplexing, and electronic quantization is demonstrated. It achieves 7.0 ENOB resolution at a 2GSa/s sub-sampling rate for a 40 GHz input analog signal.
Keywords :
analogue-digital conversion; jitter; microwave photonics; wavelength division multiplexing; ENOB resolution; analog signal; aperture-jitter photonic ADC; balanced detection; electronic quantization; phase encoded optical sampling; sub-sampling rate; time 16 fs; wavelength multiplexing; High speed optical techniques; Laser mode locking; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Photonics; Radio frequency; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
