A novel quantization scheme by slicing supercontinuum spectrum for all-optical analog-to-digital conversion

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 465-467

  Oda, Sho Ichiro ^a   Maruta, Akihiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical analog to digital conversion (ADC); Optical multilevel thresholding; Optical quantization; Supercontinuum (SC)

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING; OPTICAL ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION; OPTICAL MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING; OPTICAL QUANTIZATION; SUPERCONTINUUM (SC) SPECTRUM;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 13444261118     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.839397     Document Type: Article

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