TEMPORAL RESOLUTION AND FIDELITY ENHANCEMENT OF ARBITRARY WAVEFORMS

• Main Authors: Buckley, Brandon W, Hernandez, Vincent J, Heebner, John E, Muir, Ryan D, Mittelberger, Daniel E
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.04.2022
• Subjects: DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH ISMODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THEDEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY,COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g.SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; FREQUENCY-CHANGING; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICS; PHYSICS; TECHNIQUES OR PROCEDURES FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF; TRANSMISSION

The nonlinearities of cascaded and series configurations of Mach-Zehnder electrooptic modulators are utilized to increase signal bandwidth and boost signal fidelity in electronic digital to analog converters.