Title :
Photonic time-stretched analog-to-digital converter with suppression of dispersion-induced power fading based on polarization modulation
Author :
Xingwei Ye ; Fangzheng Zhang ; Shilong Pan
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. of Radar Imaging & Microwave Photonics, Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
A photonic time-stretched analog-to-digital converter with suppression of dispersion-induced power fading is proposed using polarization modulation. A 32-GHz single-tone input, which should undergo the largest dispersion impairment, is experimentally stretched by a factor of ~9.5.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; light polarisation; optical dispersion; optical filters; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; GHz single-tone input; dispersion impairment; dispersion-induced power fading; photonic time-stretched analog-to-digital converter; polarization modulation; Amplitude modulation; Analog-digital conversion; Dispersion; Fading; Optical pulses; Photonics; analog-to-digital converter; polarization modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995326
