• DocumentCode
    1653905
  • Title

    An all-optical sample-and-hold architecture incorporating amplitude jitter suppression

  • Author

    Petrillo, Keith G. ; Stroud, Jasper R. ; Foster, Mark A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate an all-optical sample-and-hold architecture for photonically-assisted ADCs. Our scheme utilizes sub-ps sampling and dispersion to create >;100-ps hold pulses and is additionally shown to reduce laser pulse amplitude jitter by 4.2 dB.
  • Keywords
    analogue-digital conversion; circuit noise; integrated optics; interference suppression; jitter; sample and hold circuits; all-optical sample-and-hold architecture; amplitude jitter suppression; laser pulse amplitude jitter; photonically-assisted ADC; time 100 ps; Jitter; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325668