Title :
Wide-bandwidth, high-resolution ADC scalable to continuous-time operation
Author :
Sefler, George A. ; Conway, Josh A. ; Valley, George C.
Author_Institution :
Electron. & Photonics Lab., Aerosp. Corp., El Segundo, CA, USA
Abstract :
A photonic front-end is used with a commercial digital oscilloscope to create a 2-channel, 7-effective bit, 10-GHz input bandwidth ADC that can be scaled to continuous-time operation by adding commercial components for 10 more channels.
Keywords :
analogue-digital conversion; oscilloscopes; continuous-time operation; digital oscilloscope; high-resolution ADC scalable; photonic front-end; wide-bandwidth; Bandwidth; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical signal processing; Photonics; Radio frequency; Ultrafast optics; (060.5625) Radio frequency photonics; (070.1170) Analog optical signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8