Demonstration of a photonic analog-to-digital converter scalable to 40 GS/s with 8-bit resolution
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Grein, Matthew E.; Spector, Steven J.; Rao, Hemonth G.; Lyszczarz, Theodore M.; Geis, Mike W.; Lennon, Donna M.; Jung Yoon; Schulein, Robert T.; Khilo, Anatol; Kartner, Franz X.
- Source
- 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on. :1-2 May, 2008
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Analog-digital conversion
Optical filters
Optical signal processing
Optical modulation
Optical devices
Chirp modulation
Integrated optics
Sampling methods
CMOS technology
Optical pulses
070.1170 Analog optical signal processing
250.3140 Integrated optoelectronic circuits
- Language
An initial system demonstration is shown for a CMOS-compatible optically-sampled analog-to-digital converter with potential to achieve 40 GS/s with 8–10 effective number of bits (ENOB). Using commercial components, 7.6 ENOB has been achieved.