Novel Optical Analog-To-Digital Converter Based on Optical Time Division Multiplexing

摘要

A novel optical analog-to-digital converter based on optical time division multiplexing(OTDM) is describedwhich uses electrooptic sampling and time-demultiplexing together with multiple electronic analog-to-digitalconverter(ADC). Compared with the previous scheme, the time-division multiplexer and the time-division demultiplexer areapplied in the optical analog-to-digital converter(OADC) at the same time, the design of the OADC is simplified and