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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
