Analog-to-digital converter: a new type using an electrooptic light modulator
Abstract
A new type of analog-to-digital converter (ADC), which consists of an electrooptic light modulator and electronic diode circuits, is proposed. This device allows direct translation of an analog signal into a Gray code with high speed and high resolution. It is demonstrated that an analog signal with a 60-V P-P voltage and a frequency of 11 MHz can be translated into 3 bits in a Gray code by this ADC.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- September 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.18.003148
- Bibcode:
- 1979ApOpt..18.3148T
- Keywords:
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- Analog To Digital Converters;
- Electro-Optics;
- Light Modulation;
- Optical Communication;
- Codes;
- Crystal Optics;
- Diodes;
- Electric Potential;
- Frequency Response;
- High Resolution;
- Lithium Compounds;
- Modulators;
- Signal Transmission;
- Lasers and Masers;
- ELECTROOPTICS;
- MODULATORS