Hybrid photonic analog-to-digital conversion using superconducting electronics

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2047-2052

  Currie, Marc ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog digital conversion; Optical data processing; Photonic sampling; Superconducting electronics

Indexed keywords

JITTER; MAGNETIC FLUX; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PHOTONS; SAMPLING; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

INPUT SIGNAL; OUTPUT STREAM; PHOTONIC SAMPLING; SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRONICS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 10444265132     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2004.838319     Document Type: Article

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