Spectral efficiency improvement in photonic time-stretch analog-to-digital converter via polarization multiplexing

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 947-949

  Fard, Ali ^a   Buckley, Brandon ^a   Jalali, Bahram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog to digital converter (ADC); eye diagram; oscilloscope; photonic time stretch; polarization multiplexing

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; EYE DIAGRAMS; OSCILLOSCOPE; PHOTONIC TIME-STRETCH; POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING;

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; MULTIPLEXING; POLARIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 79959571202     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2142414     Document Type: Article

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