Contrast ratio enhancement in a saturable absorber based photonic analog to digital converter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4732, Issue , 2002, Pages 46-52

  Hayduk, Michael J ^a   Bussjager, Rebecca J ^a   Johns, Steven T ^a   Gerhardstein, Cheryl M ^a   Wicks, Gary W ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog to digital converter; Fabry Perot etalon; InGaAs; Saturable absorbers

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; ETALONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 0036454723     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.477436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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