Photonic bandwidth compression front end for digital oscilloscopes

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 5073-5077

  Chou, Jason ^a,b   Conway, Josh A ^a,c   Sefler, George A ^a   Valley, George C ^a   Jalali, Bahram ^d  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Fluke Thermography   (United States)

^c Kinsey Technical Services Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog to digial conversion (ADC); Microwave photonics; Optical analog link; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Photonic assisted ADC; Photonic time stretch

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BANDWIDTH; CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPES; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DIGITAL RADIO; LIGHT MODULATION; MODULATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANALOG-TO-DIGIAL CONVERSION (ADC); DIGITAL OSCILLOSCOPE; EFFECTIVE NUMBER OF BITS; INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; OPTICAL ANALOG; PHOTONIC ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER; PHOTONIC TIME-STRETCH;

BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION;

EID: 70349600849     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2030519     Document Type: Article

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