Study of an ultrafast analog-to-digital conversion scheme based on diffractive optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 2881-2887

  Johansson, Mathias ^a   Löfving, Björn ^a   Hård, Sverker ^a   Thylén, Lars ^b   Mokhtari, Mehran ^b   Westergren, Urban ^b   Pala, Costantino ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; ARRAYS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ARRAY ELEMENTS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0037816367     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002881     Document Type: Article

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