All-optical analog-to-digital converter by use of self-frequency shifting in fiber and a pulse-shaping technique

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2817-2823

  Konishi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Tanimura, Kazunori ^a   Asano, Kousuke ^a   Oshita, Yoshinori ^b   Ichioka, Yoshiki ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Science Technology Center   (Japan)

^c NARA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFTING;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 0038127277     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002817     Document Type: Article

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