Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 37, Issue 3, 748(2010)

Phase-Shifted Photonic Analog-to-Digital Converter by Using Fiber Squeezer

Peng Yue*, Zhang Hongming, Wu Qingwei, Fu Xin, and Yao Minyu
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    In this paper,a novel phase-shifted photonic analog-to-digital conversion (PADC) scheme is presented. In order to realize the phase-shifted quantization,the phase difference between two polarizations is produced by press-induced birefringence in fiber squeezer. A 4-bit optical phase-shifted analog-to-digital system is demonstrated experimentally with 10 GS/s sampling rate,and 2.5 GHz sinusoidal electrical signal is sampled and quantized,achieving a signal-to-noise of 23.9 dB and an effective number of bits of 3.68 bits. Comparing with existing PADC methods,this scheme has a simple structure,and only needs one phase modulator,which avoids the problem of input signal synchronization;using the fiber squeezer as phase-shift module,the quantization resolution of higher than 6-bit can be achieved with high control precision and low cost;this scheme has the potential to realize higher sampling rate with optical pulses multiplex technology.

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    Peng Yue, Zhang Hongming, Wu Qingwei, Fu Xin, Yao Minyu. Phase-Shifted Photonic Analog-to-Digital Converter by Using Fiber Squeezer[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2010, 37(3): 748

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optical communication

    Received: Apr. 15, 2009

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 11, 2010

    The Author Email: Yue Peng (y-peng05@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/cjl20103703.0748

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