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Quantization Error Improvement for Optical Quantization Using Dual Rail Configuration

Tomotaka NAGASHIMA, Makoto HASEGAWA, Takuya MURAKAWA, Tsuyoshi KONISHI

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We investigate a quantization error improvement technique using a dual rail configuration for optical quantization. Our proposed optical quantization uses intensity-to-wavelength conversion based on soliton self-frequency shift and spectral compression based on self-phase modulation. However, some unfavorable input peak power regions exist due to stagnations of wavelength shift or distortions of spectral compression. These phenomena could induce a serious quantization error and degrade the effective number of bit (ENOB). In this work, we propose a quantization error improvement technique which can make up for the unfavorable input peak power regions. We experimentally verify the quantization error improvement effect by the proposed technique in 6 bit optical quantization. The estimated ENOB is improved from 5.35 bit to 5.66 bit. In addition, we examine the XPM influence between counter-propagating pulses at high sampling rate. Experimental results and numerical simulation show that the XPM influence is negligible under ∼40 GS/s conditions.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E98-C No.8 pp.808-815
Publication Date
2015/08/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1587/transele.E98.C.808
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Microwave Photonics)
Category
Optical A/D Conversion

Authors

Tomotaka NAGASHIMA
  Osaka University
Makoto HASEGAWA
  Osaka University
Takuya MURAKAWA
  Osaka University
Tsuyoshi KONISHI
  Osaka University

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