Title :
Improvement of all optical ADC based on phase-shifted optical quantization by using a polarization modulator
Author :
Ma, Lingmei ; Zhang, Yuancheng ; Zhang, Hongming ; Peng, Yue ; Yao, Minyu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
A novel scheme of OADC using PolM is proposed in this paper and ENOB of 3.18 bits under a sampling rate of 10Gs/s is obtained in the experiment.
Keywords :
analogue-digital conversion; light polarisation; modulators; optical phase shifters; quantisation (signal); signal sampling; ENOB; OADC; PolM; all optical ADC; analog-to-digital converter; phase-shifted optical quantization; polarization modulator; Lithium niobate; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Phase modulation; Quantization; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
