• DocumentCode
    3006907
  • Title

    All optical analog-to-digital conversion: Principle and recent progress

  • Author

    Konishi, Tsuyoshi ; Goto, Hiroomi ; Kato, Takuya ; Kawanishi, Kentaro

  • Author_Institution
    Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    8-10 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    487
  • Lastpage
    490
  • Abstract
    Attention will be paid to cooperative use of analog and digital signals to make a full use of each excellent feature. All optical analog-to-digital conversion has been investigated to solve problems due to electrical bandwidth limitation. In this paper, our proposed all optical A/D conversion is briefly reviewed and our recent trial for securing high power-stability of optical pulses for quantization as well as sampling is described.
  • Keywords
    integrated optoelectronics; optical limiters; quantisation (signal); all optical A-D conversion; all optical analog-to-digital conversion; electrical bandwidth limitation; optical limiter; optical pulse high power-stability; quantization; sampling; Analog-digital conversion; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Optical solitons; Quantization; Sampling methods; Ultrafast optics; A/D conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical Signal Processing; Optical limiting;
  • 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.2009.5375587
  • Filename
    5375587