Photonic Sampling and Analog-to-Digital Conversion (Laser Physics)

Illustrated with color diagrams. Chapter titles are ...I. PHOTONIC SAMPLING OF RF & MICROWAVE SIGNALS ...(1) Introduction ...(2) Modelocking Techniques ...(3) Laser Configurations ...(4) Pulse Shortening and Resonator Stabilization in Modelocked Lasers ...(5) Laser Performance Measurements ...(6) Measurement Results ...(7) NPS Sigma Laser ...(8) Summary of Laser Sampling ...(9) Design of Optical Oversampling Architectures ...(10) Optical Undersampling DFT Receivers ...(11) Non-Uniform Sampling Jitter ...II. PHOTONIC ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION ...(1) Introduction ...(2) Evaluation of Photonic Sampling for Analog-to-Digital Conversion ...(3) Enhanced Linearity Photonic Samping ...(4) Photonic Bandpass as InP-HBT Analog-to-Digital Converter ...(5) Example: Demonstration of 40 GSPS Photonic Time Interleaved Architecture ...(6) Optical Clock Distribution and InP-HBT (with a subsection on the characterization of integrated photodetectors).