Improved digital-to-analog conversion using multi-electrode Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 3567-3575

  Ehrlichman, Yossef ^a   Amrani, Ofer ^a   Ruschin, Shlomo ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Digital to analog (DAC) conversion; Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI); Nonlinear; Optical modulation

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRODES; ERRORS; HYBRID COMPUTERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT MODULATION; LINEARIZATION; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

ANALOG INPUTS; DIGITAL SEQUENCES; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTER DAC; DIGITAL- TO-ANALOG CONVERSIONS; DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG (DAC) CONVERSION; DYNAMIC RANGES; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER (MZI); MAPPING METHODS; MULTI ELECTRODES; NON-LINEARITY ERRORS; NONLINEAR; OPTICAL MODULATION; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; QUANTIZATION ERRORS; SECTIONING METHODS; SYSTEMATIC METHODS;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 60949112806     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.917317     Document Type: Article

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