30, 20 and 10 Years Ago in OPN

Rebecca Robinson

2008 [Jeffrey Shainline/OPN May 2008]

“Although these devices are still under investigation, they will one day be used not only for the conversion between optical analog and digital signals but also for high-speed optical signal processing, such as the modulation format conversion that may be used in the future heterogeneous photonic networks. All-optical ADC and DAC may also be applicable to radar systems.”

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