Demonstration of a 40 Gigasample/s Real-time Photonic Analog-to-digital Converter
Paper in proceeding, 2005

Abstract A novel interferometric scheme for photonic analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) is experimentally demonstrated at a real-time sample rate of 40 gigasamples/s. The input signal in the experiment was a 1.25 GHz sinusoidal tone and the resolution 21 digital levels with an effective number of bits (ENOB) of 3.6. The major benefits of this scheme are that only one standard phase modulator is required and that the phase swing does not have to be larger than +-PI to reach the full digital value space.

photonic A-D converter

phase-modulation

photonic sampling

analog-digital conversion

optical interferometry

electro-optical modulation

Author

Johan Stigwall

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Sheila Galt

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

International topical meeting on Microwave Photonics, Seoul, Oct 12-14

77-79
89-950043-3-993560 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Control Engineering

ISBN

89-950043-3-993560

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10/6/2017