Photonic analog-to-digital converters

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1955-1982

  Valley, George C ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

PHOTONIC SAMPLING; PHOTONIC SYSTEMS; QUANTIZATION; RADIO FREQUENCY;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 33847697327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001955     Document Type: Article

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