Abstract

Analog-to-digital (A/D) converters are widely used to translate sensor measurements into the digital language of computing, information processing, and control systems. Some of these systems, such as signal processors for wideband radars, are limited in performance by the speed of present A/D converters. A new type of A/D converter based on electrooptic modulation of light in channel waveguides has been proposed¹. This paper discusses the design of such a device and presents some experimental results on electrooptic A/D conversion.

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