Demonstration and analysis of a 40 gigasample/s interferometric analog-to-digital converter
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2006

A novel interferometric scheme for photonic analog-to-digital conversion is for the first time experimentally demonstrated at a real-time sample rate of 40 gigasamples/s. The scheme includes sampling as well as binary encoding, and the input signal in the experiment was a 1.25-GHz sinusoidal tone that was successfully digitized with a nominal resolution of 21 digital levels. Single-sample measurements yielded an effective number of bits (ENOB) of 2.6, which was limited by thermal detection noise while multisample averaged measurements resulted in an ENOB of 3.6 bits, mainly limited by phase drift. Apart from the experimental results, this paper covers an extensive theoretical analysis of the system, including calculations on the fundamental maximum bandwidth, the required optical power, the generated binary code, and its error robustness, as well as the impact of detection noise on the signal-to-noise ratio of the digitized signal. The major benefits of this interferometric scheme are that only one standard phase modulator is required and that the phase swing does not have to be larger than /spl plusmn//spl pi/ to reach the full digital value space.

error analysis

binary codes

analogue-digital conversion

light interferometry

optical modulation

phase modulation

optical information processing

Författare

Johan Stigwall

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Sheila Galt

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Journal of Lightwave Technology

0733-8724 (ISSN) 1558-2213 (eISSN)

Vol. 24 3 1247-1256

Ämneskategorier

Telekommunikation

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Reglerteknik

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2005.863262

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