Title

Ultrawide-band photonic time-stretch A/D converter employing phase diversity

Authors

Authors

Y. Han; O. Boyraz;B. Jalali

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech.

Keywords

fiber optics; microwave photonics; optical signal processing; photonic; analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion; time stretch; TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION; SIGNALS; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

Abstract

The performance of analog-to-digital converters can be greatly enhanced by preprocessing the analog signal using the photonic time-stretch technique. The analog bandwidth of a time-stretch preprocessor is limited by dispersion-induced frequency fading. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a new implementation of the time-stretch analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion system that overcomes the bandwidth limitation. It is shown that the fading phenomenon can be mitigated by using phase diversity, and the maximum ratio combining algorithm is identified as a potential technique for maximizing the signal-to-noise-ratio.

Journal Title

Ieee Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volume

53

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1404

Last Page

1408

WOS Identifier

WOS:000228365600036

ISSN

0018-9480

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