Title :
Approaches for differentially-encoded photonic analog-to-digital conversion
Author :
Ying Chen ; Hao Chi ; Xianmin Zhang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
fDate :
Nov. 5 2011-Dec. 7 2011
Abstract :
This paper discusses techniques for photonic analog-to-digital conversion with differential encoding, which increases the equivalent number of bits. A new structure using dual-drive unbalanced Mach-Zehnder modulator is proposed.
Keywords :
analogue-digital conversion; encoding; differentially-encoded photonic analog-to-digital conversion; dual-drive unbalanced Mach-Zehnder modulator; Photonic analog-to-digital conversion; delay line interferometer; differential encoding;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2011), 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-539-3
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2011.1306
