Characterization of a hybrid photonic analog-digital converter based on WDM technique

Author

Kang, Jin U. ; Frankel, Michael Y. ; Esman, Ronald D.

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1-4 Dec 1998

Firstpage

382

Abstract

Recently, we have proposed and initially demonstrated a novel hybrid photonic analog to digital converter (ADC) based on a WDM technique that combines the high-bandwidth optical front-end with parallel wavelength-multiplexed signal transmission followed by a high-resolution, low-cost electronic back-end digitization. Here, we experimentally characterize the potential performance of such a hybrid ADC for directly digitizing analog signals with frequencies as high as 18 GHz

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; optical communication equipment; wavelength division multiplexing; 18 GHz; WDM technique; analog signals; directly digitizing; high-bandwidth optical front-end; high-resolution low-cost electronic back-end digitization; hybrid ADC; hybrid photonic analog to digital converter; hybrid photonic analog-digital converter; parallel wavelength-multiplexed signal transmission; Amplitude modulation; Analog-digital conversion; Chirp; Histograms; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Radio frequency; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4947-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1998.737890

Filename

737890