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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7500-9
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2002.1159363
