Mitigation of group-delay-ripple distortions for use of chirped fiber-bragg gratings in photonic time-stretch adcs

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1093-1100

  Sefler, George A ^a   Valley, George C ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog to digital conversion; chirped fiber Bragg grating; group delay ripple; photonic time stretch; photonic assisted ADC

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATING; DC OFFSETS; DIFFERENTIAL ARCHITECTURE; DISPERSIVE COMPONENTS; EFFECTIVE RESOLUTIONS; GROUP DELAY RIPPLES; HIGH NONLINEAR; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; INTENSITY SCALE; LOW-LOSS; PATH LOSS; PHOTONIC TIME-STRETCH; PHOTONIC-ASSISTED ADC; PULSE PROPAGATION; RF BANDWIDTHS;

BRAGG GRATINGS; MODULATION; SEPARATION;

GROUP DELAY;

EID: 84873659050     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2013.2243404     Document Type: Article

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