Presentation 2004-08-26
All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion Based on Slicing Supercontinuum Spectrum and Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror
Sho-ichiro ODA, Akihiro MARUTA,
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Abstract(in English) 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 all-optical ADC scheme which consists of the quantization based on slicing supercontinuum (SC) spectrum and the coding with using nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM). We conducted proof-of-principle experiments of optical quantization by slicing SC spectrum with use of arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG) and optical coding using NOLM. We successfully demonstrated all-optical 2-bit ADC.
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Keyword(in English) Optical analog-to-digital conversion / Supercontinuum generation / Nonlinear optical loop mirror
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Title (in English) All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion Based on Slicing Supercontinuum Spectrum and Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror
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Keyword(1) Optical analog-to-digital conversion
Keyword(2) Supercontinuum generation
Keyword(3) Nonlinear optical loop mirror
1st Author's Name Sho-ichiro ODA
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University()
2nd Author's Name Akihiro MARUTA
2nd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Date 2004-08-26
Paper # OCS2004-56,OFT2004-19
Volume (vol) vol.104
Number (no) 259
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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