A high-speed and high-res ol ution optical A/D quantizer is proposed. Its architecture is discussed. Bit circ uits are built by using the phase modulators in parallel. Based on the different character of the half-wave voltage for every phase modulator and the polari zed bias design of incident light, the RF input signal is coded and transmitted in the form of optical digital signal. According to the principle of the archit ecture, the high-resolution quantizers with 8-bit and 12-bit, et al. are bui lt, which operate at 100 GS/ s. Their quantization noise is invariable almost w ith bit circuits increasing. The simulation result of 4-bit A/D quantizer is al so given.
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