A photonic analog-to-digital conversion scheme using Mach-Zehnder modulators with identical half-wave voltages

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 567-572

  Chi, Hao ^a,b   Yao, Jianping ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LIGHT MODULATORS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

HALF-WAVE VOLTAGES; MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATORS (MZM); PROOF-OF-CONCEPT;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FIBER OPTICS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 38549144713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000567     Document Type: Article

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