Phase-shifting optical quantization for high-speed microwave signals

Author

Fu, Xin ; Zhang, Hongming ; Peng, Yue ; Wu, Qingwei ; Zhang, Yuancheng ; Yao, Minyu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

584

Lastpage

587

Abstract

This paper firstly briefly introduces and reviews the recent developments in phase-shifting optical quantization for high-speed microwave signals, which is one promising branch in all-optical analog-to-digital conversion. After that, a phase-shifting optical quantization system with a sampling rate of 40 GS/s and a theoretical read-out-bits of 4-bit is built, and practical considerations for further improvements of both sampling rate and resolution are discussed.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; microwave phase shifters; quantisation (signal); all-optical analog-to-digital conversion; high-speed microwave signals; phase-shifting optical quantization; sampling rate; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Optical solitons; Phase modulation; Quantization; Sampling methods; Signal resolution; All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion (AOADC); Effective Number Of Bits (ENOB); Phase-Shifting Optical Quantization (PSOQ);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2009. APCC 2009. 15th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4784-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4785-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2009.5375563

Filename

5375563