2-bit 1-Gsample/s electro-optic guided-wave analogue-to-digital convertor system
Abstract
An electro-optic analogue-to-digital convertor system has been demonstrated at 1 Gsample/s. This system has been tested with low-frequency waveforms and by means of a beat-frequency technique with a 499 MHz test signal. Digital outputs are slowed in time and then fed into 125 MHz digital-to-analogue convertors which accurately reconstruct the beat signal, proving the compatibility of electro-optic signal processing with digital circuits.
- Publication:
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Electronics Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 1983
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1983ElL....19..332B
- Keywords:
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- Analog To Digital Converters;
- Electro-Optics;
- Optical Waveguides;
- Signal Processing;
- Aluminum Gallium Arsenides;
- Beat Frequencies;
- Heterojunction Devices;
- Lithium Niobates;
- Waveforms;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering