Title :
A Pseudorandom Sampled High Speed Photonic Analog-to-Digital Converter Architecture
Author :
Airola, M. ; Dennis, M.L. ; Novak, D. ; Clark, T.R.
Author_Institution :
JHU Applied Phys. Lab., Glen Burnie
Abstract :
We present an analog-to-digital converter architecture utilizing non-uniform photonic sampling, synchronously clocked digitizers and digital signal processing to accomplish unambiguous digitization of input signals covering multiple Nyquist zones.
Keywords :
analogue-digital conversion; high-speed optical techniques; microwave photonics; optical information processing; analog-to-digital converter architecture; digital signal processing; input signals digitization; multiple Nyquist zones; nonuniform photonic sampling; synchronously clocked digitizers; Analog-digital conversion; Apertures; Bandwidth; Clocks; Frequency; Optical pulses; Sampling methods; Signal processing; Signal resolution; Signal sampling;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0925-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382299