Distortion correction in a high-resolution time-stretch ADC scalable to continuous time

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1468-1476

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

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Fluke Thermography   (United States)

^c Kinsey Technical Services Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog to digital conversion; Microwave photonics; Optical analog link; Optical signal processing; Photonic time stretch; Photonic assisted ADC

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TIME; DC OFFSETS; DISTORTION CORRECTION; GROUP DELAYS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHER ORDER; LASER REPETITION RATE; LINEAR PROPAGATION REGIME; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; NON-LINEAR FIBER; OPTICAL ANALOG; OPTICAL ANALOG LINK; OPTICAL BAND WIDTH; OPTICAL POWER; PHOTONIC TIME-STRETCH; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; SIGNAL TO NOISE AND DISTORTION RATIO; STATIC ERROR; SUBAPERTURE; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; WAVELENGTH CHANNELS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; GROUP DELAY; LINEARIZATION; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 77951833231     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2043500     Document Type: Article

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