Design considerations of all-optical A/D Conversion: Nonlinear fiber-optic Sagnac-loop interferometer-based optical quantizing and coding

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2618-2628

  Ikeda, Kensuke ^a   Abdul, Jalil Mohammad ^b   Tobioka, Hideaki ^b   Inoue, Takashi ^b   Namiki, Shu ^c   Kitayama, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM); Optical analog to digital (A D) conversion; Optical switch; Optical signal processing; Sagnac interferometer

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

GROUP-VELOCITY DISPERSION; NONLINEAR FIBER; NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33746909418     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.875244     Document Type: Article

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