Demonstration and analysis of a 40-gigasample/s interferometric analog-to-digital converter

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1247-1256

  Stigwall, Johan ^a   Galt, Sheila ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Analog digital conversion; Electrooptical modulation; Optical interferometry; Phase modulation; Photonic analog to digital converter (ADC); Photonic sampling

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LIGHT MODULATION; PHASE MODULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; THERMAL NOISE;

DIGITAL CONVERTER; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; PHASE MODULATOR; PHOTONIC ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER (ADC); THERMAL DETECTION NOISE;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 33644991975     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.863262     Document Type: Article

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