Two bit optical analog-to-digital converter based on photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 7966-7973

  Miao, Binglin ^a   Chen, Caihua ^a   Sharkway, Ahmed ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Prather, Dennis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DEGREE OF PERTURBATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; UNIFORM LATTICES;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 33747767213     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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