An ENOB-enhanced Optical Analog-to-digital Converter with Cascaded Step-size MMI and Modulo Operation

Author(s):  
Yan He ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
Jifang Qiu ◽  
Yue Liu ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
...  
Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Yue Liu ◽  
Jifang Qiu ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
Yan He ◽  
Ran Tao ◽  
...  

An optical analog-to-digital converter (OADC) scheme with enhanced bit resolution by using a multimode interference (MMI) coupler as optical quantization is proposed. The mathematical simulation model was established to verify the feasibility and to investigate the robustness of the scheme. Simulation results show that 20 quantization levels (corresponding to 4.32 of effective number of bits (ENOB)) are realized by using only 6 channels, which indicates that the scheme requires much fewer quantization channels or modulators to realize the same amount of ENOB. The scheme is robust and potential for integration.


2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (18) ◽  
pp. 21441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhe Kang ◽  
Xianting Zhang ◽  
Jinhui Yuan ◽  
Xinzhu Sang ◽  
Qiang Wu ◽  
...  

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