• DocumentCode
    3006528
  • Title

    A new proposal of photonic analog-to-digital conversion based on polarization modulator and polarizer

  • Author

    Fu, Xin ; Zhang, Hongming ; Yao, Minyu

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    8-10 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    572
  • Lastpage
    574
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a novel photonic analog-to-digital conversion method is proposed, theoretically analyzed and numerically simulated. This method features simple configuration, because only one polarization modulator, several polarization controllers and several polarizers are required. Furthermore, this method mitigated the problem of bias-drift, which is common in some previous intensity modulating schemes.
  • Keywords
    analogue-digital conversion; integrated optoelectronics; optical modulation; optical polarisers; bias-drift; photonic analog-to-digital conversion; polarization controllers; polarization modulator; polarizers; Analog-digital conversion; Bandwidth; Intensity modulation; Lighting control; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Phase modulation; Proposals; Quantization; Sampling methods; Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion; Photonic Quantization; Polarization Modulator;
  • 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.2009.5375564
  • Filename
    5375564