All-Optical Quantization Scheme Based on Fiber Nonlinearity
- Title :
All-Optical Quantization Scheme Based on Fiber Nonlinearity
- Authors :
S.Oda, A.Maruta, and K. Kitayama
- Journal :
IEEE Photonic Technol. Lett., vol.16, No.2, pp.587-589, 2004.
- Abstract :
We have proposed a novel all-optical quantization scheme that may be useful
for analog-to-digital conversion. The preprocess of optical sampling is
performed by four-wave mixing, and optical quantizing is realized by soliton
phenomena. We have conducted a simple proof-of-principle experiment,
and demonstrated the optical multilevel thresholding to show the feasibility
of the proposed method.
- Key words :
Optical analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion, optical multilevel thresholding,
optical quantizing, optical sampling, optical soliton
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