Microwave Photonics, 2nd Edition

9	Tera Sample-per-Second Time Stretched Analog-to-Digital Conversion Bahram Jalali, Ali M. Fard, and Yan Han

CONTENTS

9.1    Overview

9.2    Time-Wavelength Mapping

9.3    Discrete Time-Wavelength Processing

9.4    Impact of Time-Stretch on Signal-to-Noise Ratio

9.5    Effect of Optical Dispersion on Fidelity of the Time-Stretched Electrical Signal

9.5.1    Mathematical Framework

9.5.2    Dispersion Penalty and Harmonic Distortion

9.5.3    Residual Phase Errors

9.6    Time-Bandwidth Product

9.7    Doubling Time-Bandwidth Product via Polarization Multiplexing Scheme

9.8    Techniques to Overcome Dispersion-Induced Bandwidth Limitation

9.8.1    Single Sideband Modulation

9.8.2    Practical Consideration on Single Sideband Modulation

9.8.3    Phase ...