Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion

1. Introduction.- 1.1 The Role of A/D Conversion.- 1.2 Key Technological Challenges.- 1.3 Motivation for Photonic A/D Approaches.- 1.4 Organization of this Book.- 2. Performance Characteristics of Analog-to-Digital Converters.- 2.1 A/D Converter Characteristics.- 2.2 Sampling and Conversion Rate Characteristics.- 2.3 Performance Measures.- 2.4 Performance Degradations.- 2.16 Aperture Jitter.- Summary.- 3. Approaches to Analog-to-Digital Conversion.- 3.1 A/D Converter Coding Schemes.- 3.2 Nyquist-Rate Converter Architectures.- 3.3 Oversampled A/D Conversion.- 3.4 Parallel Oversampling A/D Conversion.- Summary.- 4. Photonic Devices for Analog-to-Digital Conversion.- 4.1 Mach-Zehnder Interferometers.- 4.2 Optical Waveguide Switches.- 4.3 Acousto-Optic Devices.- 4.4 Multiple Quantum Well Devices.- 4.5 Smart Pixel Technology.- Summary.- 5. Nyquist-Rate Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion.- 5.1 Electro-Optic A/D Conversion Based on a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer.- 5.2 Optical Folding-Flash A/D Converter.- 5.3 Matrix-Multiplication and Beam Deflection.- 5.4 Other Approaches to Photonic A/D Conversion.- Summary.- 6. Oversampled Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion.- 6.1 Oversampling Photonic A/D Conversion.- 6.2 Optical Oversampled Modulators.- 6.3 The Digital Postprocessor.- 6.4 Performance Analysis.- 6.5 Experimental Proof-of-Concept Photonic Modulator Demonstration.- Summary.- 7. Low Resolution, Two-Dimensional Analog-to-Digital Conversion: Digital Image Halftoning.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Approaches to Halftoning.- 7.3 The Error Diffusion Algorithm.- 7.4 Neural Network Formalism.- 7.5 The Error Diffusion Neural Network.- 7.6 Quantitative Performance Metrics.- 7.7 Performance Analysis.- 7.8 Extensions to Color.- Summary.- 8. A Photonic-Based Error Diffusion NeuralNetwork.- 8.1 First-Generation CMOS-SEED Error Diffusion Neural Array.- 8.2 Second-Generation CMOS-SEED Error Diffusion Neural Array.- 8.3 OPTOCHIP: A 2-D Neural Array Employing Epitaxy-on-Electronics.- 8.4 Extensions: A Photonic Error Diffusion Filter.- Summary.- 9. Photonic A/D Conversion Based on a Fully Connected Distributed Mesh Feedback Architecture.- 9.1 Temporal and Spatial Error Diffusion.- 9.2 Spatially Distributed Oversampled A/D Conversion..- 9.3 A 2-D Fully Connected Distributed Mesh Feedback Architecture.- 9.4 A/D Conversion Using Spatial Oversampling and Error Diffusion.- 9.5 Three-Dimensional Extensions.- Summary.- 10. Trends in Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion.- 10.1 Time-Interleaving A/D Converter Architectures.- 10.2 Photonic Channelized A/D Architectures.- 10.3 Time-Stretching Using Dispersive Optical Elements.- 10.4 Ultra-Fast Laser Sources with Low Jitter.- 10.5 Novel Optical Sampling Techniques.- 10.6 Broadband Optical Modulators and Switches.- Summary.- References.

From the reviews of the first edition:

"This book is intended to serve as a resource for scientists, engineers, and students interested in performance characteristics and measures of A/D converters, classical A/D conversion techniques, and photonic approaches to A/D conversion. ... The book is well organized and the text easily understandable. ... It is a book which should be available in any University library." (D.H. Miller, Optik, Vol. 117, 2006)

"The book has a readable style unlike others. ... The book starts off with a simple to read introduction. ... It would be useful to people who already had some knowledge in the field and would like an overview, such as an academic wishing to form a new course." (Justin Blows, The Physicist, Vol. 38 (5), 2001)