Title
2-Bit All-Optical Analog-To-Digital Conversion By Slicing Supercontinuum Spectrum And Switching With Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror And Its Application To Quaternary Ask-To-Ook Modulation Format Converter
Abstract
Recently, the research on all-optical analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) has been extensively attempted to break through inherently limited operating speed of electronic devices. In this paper, we describe a novel quantization scheme by slicing supercontinuum (SC) spectrum for all-optical ADC and then propose a 2-bit all-optical ADC scheme consisting of the quantization by slicing SC spectrum and the coding by switching pulses with a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM). The feasibility of the proposed quantization scheme was confirmed by numerical simulation. We conducted proof-of-principle experiments of optical quantization by slicing SC spectrum with an arrayed waveguide grating and optical coding by switching pulses with NOLM. We successfully demonstrated optical quantization and coding, which allows us to confirm the feasibility of the proposed 2-bit ADC scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.5.1963
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
all-optical analog-to-digital conversion, optical quantization, optical coding, supercontinuum generation, nonlinear optical loop mirror
Telecommunications,All optical,Ask price,Computer science,Slicing,Computer network,Electronic engineering,Nonlinear optical loop mirror,On-off keying,Analog to digital conversion,Supercontinuum
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E88B
5
0916-8516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.63
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sho-ichiro Oda112.65
Akihiro Maruta21311.00