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Optical Signal Processing Based on All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion
The nonlinearity of optical fiber provides attractive functionalities for all-optical signal processing. Recently, researchers have extensively studied all-optical analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters in an effort to surpass the inherently limited operating speed of these devices’ electronic counterparts.
Researchers Akihiro Maruta, Takashi Kunihiro and Tomochika Kanou work on the all-optical analog-to-digital experiment.
Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) provide an indispensable bridge between the physical world in which we live and the virtual world where data are transmitted, stored and processed efficiently and with few distortions.
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