DocumentCode
387394
Title
All-optical analog-to-digital conversion utilizing nonlinear phenomena in fiber
Author
Maruta, Akihiro ; Yamamoto, Yoshinori ; Oda, Sho-Ichiro ; Kitayama, Ken-ichi
Author_Institution
Graduate Sch. of Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan
Volume
2
fYear
2002
fDate
10-14 Nov. 2002
Firstpage
430
Abstract
A novel all-optical analog-to-digital conversion scheme including both sampling and quantizing is proposed. It is based on nonlinear phenomena in optical fiber, i.e. four-wave mixing is used for sampling and soliton phenomena for quantizing. An experiment on separating higher order solitons is conducted.
Keywords
analogue-digital conversion; multiwave mixing; optical fibres; optical information processing; optical solitons; all-optical analog-to-digital conversion; four-wave mixing; higher order solitons; nonlinear phenomena; optical fiber; quantizing; sampling; soliton phenomena; Analog-digital conversion; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Optical solitons; Sampling methods;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
ISSN
1092-8081
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7500-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.2002.1159363
Filename
1159363
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