Photonic analog-to-digital converters

Sub-sampling of RF and THz waves using LT-GaAs Fabry-P é rot Cavity photoconductors under 1550 nm light excitation

Billet, M., Desmet, Y., Bavedila, F., et al. (2018) · International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) · doi:10.1109/irmmw-thz.2018.8510356

20 GHz optical pulse generation based on a 10 GHz optoelectronic oscillator

Peng, H., Guo, R., Du, H., et al. (2018) · Tenth International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics · doi:10.1117/12.2506495

The Effects of Intracavity Phase Modulation and Extracavity Optical Filtering on Amplitude Noise of Mode-Locked Pulse Trains

Özharar, S., & Özdür, İ. (2018) · IEEE Photonics Conference · doi:10.1109/ipcon.2018.8527242

Ultralow Noise Microwave Generation based on All-Fiber Michelson Interferometer and Sagnac Loop

Kwon, D., Wei, J., Pan, S., & Kim, J. (2018) · International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics · doi:10.1109/mwp.2018.8552863

Correction of timing mismatches between two channels for photonic analog-to-digital converters

Zhang, H., Wu, G., Wang, C., et al. (2018) · Optoelectronics Letters · doi:10.1007/s11801-018-8049-2

Time-Stretch based Photonic Analog-to-Digital Convertors for Spectrum Detection

Zhao, Q., Liu, Z., & Liu, N. (2018) · Asia Communications and Photonics Conference · doi:10.1109/acp.2018.8596311

Designer Oriented Analysis Of An All-Optical Binary Delta Sigma Modulator

Bhatt, A., Azeemuddin, S., & Khandelwal, A. (2018) · Asia Communications and Photonics Conference · doi:10.1109/acp.2018.8596001

Experimental Demonstration of 3-bit All-optical Quantization Based on Slicing Supercontinuum Spectrum

Ma, R., Wang, K., Jing, S., et al. (2018) · Asia Communications and Photonics Conference · doi:10.1109/acp.2018.8596281

Simulation on direct sampling of wideband millimeter-wave signals using optoelectronic switch

Song, Z., Yang, C., & Jia, S. (2018) · International Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings · doi:10.1364/oedi.2018.ot4a.49

Research on the influence of the saturable absorber on the performance of mode-locked semiconductor lasers

Zhao, W. Y., Guo, L., Wang, H., et al. (2018) · Asia Communications and Photonics Conference · doi:10.1109/acp.2018.8596124

All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion Using Inherent Multiwavelength Phase Shift in LiNbO

Wu, Q., Zhang, H., Yao, M., et al. (2008)

Experimental demonstration of slicing supercontinuum-based 4.39-bit all-optical quantization

Jing, S., Ma, R., Wang, K., et al. (2019) · Optical Engineering · doi:10.1117/1.oe.58.12.126102

An Optical Pulse Shaping Scheme for Simultaneous Photonic Filtering and Digitizing Systems

Sun, Y., Wu, G., Wang, S., et al. (2020) · IEEE photonics journal · doi:10.1109/jphot.2020.2967809

An Experimental Study of Harmonic Optical Quantizer

Kondo, K., Kodama, T., & Hanawa, M. (2019) · Microoptics Conference · doi:10.23919/moc46630.2019.8982784

1GHz All-Fiber Laser Frequency Comb

Muñoz-Marco, H., Abreu-Afonso, J., & Pérez‐Millán, P. (2019) · IEEE International Conference on Advanced Optoelectronics and Lasers (CAOL) · doi:10.1109/caol46282.2019.9019542

Mode-locked laser timing jitter limitation in optically enabled, spectrally sliced ADCsPreprint

Zazzi, A., Müller, J., Gudyriev, S., et al. (2020) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2004.05836

Single-Shot Photonic Time-Stretch Analog-to-Digital Converter Based on Dissipative Soliton

Zou, T., Zhang, Y., Peng, D., et al. (2019) · IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing (ICSIDP) · doi:10.1109/icsidp47821.2019.9173173

Resolution-enhanced photonic quantization scheme based on weighted modulation transfer functions of lithium niobate Mach–Zehnder modulators

Yang, S., Hu, X., Yang, B., et al. (2020) · Applied Optics · doi:10.1364/ao.403310

Nonlinear optical signal processing in high figure of merit CMOS compatible platforms

Moss, D., & Morandotti, R. (2015) · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · doi:10.1117/12.2180669

High performance platforms for integrated nonlinear optics

Moss, D., & Morandotti, R. (2014) · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · doi:10.1117/12.2081582

Ultra-Precise Frequency Conversion Using an Electro-Optic-Modulation Frequency Comb

Ishizawa, A., Nishikawa, T., Hitachi, K., et al. (2018) · The Review of Laser Engineering · doi:10.2184/lsj.46.2_80

Frequency Stabilization of a Mode-locked Semiconductor Laser Using Simultaneous Optical and Optoelectronic Oscillation Feedback

Wang, H., Qi, H., Zhang, R., et al. (2020) · doi:10.1364/acpc.2020.t2e.3

Phase-frequency jointly quantizing method for cost-effective all-optical analog-to-digital conversion

Deng, W., & Kang, Z. (2021) · Optical and Quantum Electronics · doi:10.1007/s11082-020-02664-3

An investigation of spectral broadening by nonlinear optical effects in photonic crystal fibers

Harvey, M. (2021) · Saint Mary's University Institutional Repository (Saint Mary's University)

Development and Characterization of Infrared Pulsed Fiber Lasers

Olson, J. (2021) · UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona)

The Basis of RF Photonic Channelization Technology

Zhang, J., & Li, J. (2021) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-89843-4_7

Analog bandwidth optimization in photonic sampling system based on cavity-less optical pulse source

Li, Z., Xu, Y., He, Y., et al. (2021) · Asia Communications and Photonics Conference · doi:10.1364/acpc.2021.t4a.241

Advanced Topics

Agrawal, G. P. (2021) · doi:10.1002/9781119737391.ch12

Timing Jitter in Mode-Locked Lasers

Meinecke, S. (2022) · Springer theses · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-96248-7_3

Influence of pulse repetition rate on SINAD performance of time-stretched photonic ADCs

Singh, K., Sreeraj, S. J., Srinivasan, B., et al. (2022) · Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP) · doi:10.1109/wrap54064.2022.9758353

Concepção de um Transceptor para Digitalização Fotônica de Enlaces Rádio-sobre-Fibra

Ribeiro, R. P., Barbero, A. P. L., Silva, V. N. H., et al. (2013) · Anais de XXXI Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações · doi:10.14209/sbrt.2013.170

Time-bandwidth engineering for arbitrary waveform generation

Gao, H., Asghari, M. H., & Jalali, B. (2014) · IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing · doi:10.1109/globalsip.2014.7032137

Photonic Digital to Analog Conversion Using Supercontinuum Multi-Channel Clocks

Ito, T., Sagara, M., Tsuda, J., et al. (2022) · OptoElectronics and Communications Conference and International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (OECC/PSC) · doi:10.23919/oecc/psc53152.2022.9849874

Limitations of Photonic Analogue to Digital Conversion Based on Passive Chirp of Ultra-Short Laser Pulses in Optical FiberPreprint

Starikov, R. S., Zlokazov, Е. Y., & Nebavskiy, V. A. (2022) · Preprints.org · doi:10.20944/preprints202211.0229.v1

Optical Sub-Nyquist Sampling of S and C-band Signals with 1 GHz Clock Source and Its Performance

Singh, K., Subramaniyam, C. N. S., Sreeraj, S. J., et al. (2022) · Asia Communications and Photonics Conference · doi:10.1109/acp55869.2022.10088857

Experimental Demonstration of Optical Quantizers Based on General MMI and CSS-MMI

Zhang, B., Qiu, J., Liu, C., et al. (2022) · Asia Communications and Photonics Conference · doi:10.1109/acp55869.2022.10088647

An All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Converter with Enhanced ENOB Based on Modulo Operation and Fourier-Prony Recovery

Li, Q., Qiu, J., Zhang, B., et al. (2022) · Asia Communications and Photonics Conference · doi:10.1109/acp55869.2022.10089013

High-Sensitivity Time Error Detection of Pulse Repetition-Rate Multiplier Using Electro-Optic Sampling-Based Timing Detection

Hyun, M., Ahn, C., & Kim, J. (2023) · doi:10.1364/cleo_si.2023.sf2f.6

Parameter Estimation of LFM Signal Intercepted by Synchronous Nyquist Folding Receiver Based on Instantaneous Autocorrelation

Liu, X., Bai, J., & Peng, J. (2023) · International Conference on Electronic Engineering and Informatics (EEI) · doi:10.1109/eei59236.2023.10212590

Tunable Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion enabled by a Dispersion-Diversity Multicore Fiber

García, S., Ureña, M., & Gasulla, I. (2023) · Advanced Photonics Congress · doi:10.1364/sppcom.2023.sptu3e.4

Sub-Nyquist Photonic Sampled Analog-to-Digital Converter with Simultaneous Operation in S, C and X-band

Subramaniyam, C. N. S., Singh, K., Sreeraj, S. J., et al. (2023) · Advanced Photonics Congress · doi:10.1364/iprsn.2023.jtu4a.31

ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ СХЕМЫ УДВОЕНИЯ ЧАСТОТЫ СЛЕДОВАНИЯ СВЕРХКОРОТКИХ СВЕТОВЫХ ИМПУЛЬСОВ ДЛЯ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ ПОСЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬНОСТИ ВЫБОРКИ АНАЛОГО-ЦИФРОВЫХ ФОТОННЫХ СИСТЕМ

Zlokazov, E., Nebavskiy, V. A., & Starikov, R. S. (2023) · Вестник НИЯУ МИФИ · doi:10.26583/vestnik.2023.264

Dynamic range enhancement of photonic sampling based on chirp management in cavity-less optical pulse source

Gao, F., Li, Z., Zhang, Z., et al. (2023) · doi:10.1117/12.3006386

Reduction of sampling rate in a time-interleaved photonic ADC for RF direct sampling

Ye, X., Dong, S., Zhai, J.-Q., et al. (2023) · doi:10.1117/12.3007661

An On-chip Optical Quantizer with an ENOB of 5.83 bits using a Thermo-optic Phase Shifter Array

Tu, D., Huang, X., Yu, H., et al. (2023) · doi:10.1109/acp/poem59049.2023.10369291

Power dissipation bounds for photonic analog to digital converters

Deakin, C., & Liu, Z. (2023) · doi:10.23919/ofc49934.2023.10116920

An Ultra Wide Band RF Sampling System Based on Photoelectric Hybrid Technology

Jiang, F., Zhou, Y., Yang, Z., et al. (2023) · Youth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Automation (YAC) · doi:10.1109/yac59482.2023.10401466

Direct-modulation optoelectronic oscillator for optical pulse and frequency comb generation

Sinquin, B., Romanelli, M., Alouini, M., et al. (2024) · Journal of the Optical Society of America B · doi:10.1364/josab.529629

Multi-stage Optical Sampling for Photonics-assisted Wideband Signal Analog-to-Digital conversion

Mandalawi, Y., Meier, J., Singh, K., et al. (2024) · doi:10.1364/cleo_at.2024.jtu2a.79

10 GHz, 583 fs Regeneratively Mode-Locked Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Combining Nonlinear Polarization Evolution

Zhou, X., Zhou, Y., Wang, W., et al. (2024) · doi:10.1364/cleo_at.2024.jw2a.48

Optical Sampling Source with Mode and Wavelength Division Multiplexing Capability

Song, H., Lu, D., Guo, F., et al. (2024) · doi:10.1109/oecc54135.2024.10975311

Experimental Demonstration of a Precision-Enhanced ADC Using a Dual-Stage Quantization

Li, Q., Qiu, J., Zhang, Z., et al. (2025) · Optical Fiber Communication Conference · doi:10.1364/ofc.2025.m1e.6

Optical sample-and-hold for clock skew immunity in high-speed channel-interleaved photonic analog-to-digital converters

Qin, R., Zhang, L., Chen, X., et al. (2025) · Optics Express · doi:10.1364/oe.571841

Photonic Sampler for Millimeter-Wave Signals up to 70 GHz Using a 1-GHz Mode-Locked Laser and a Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit

Amaro-Losada, L., Bruynsteen, C., Niu, S., et al. (2025) · IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM) · doi:10.1109/sum65312.2025.11121813

Modulator-spurious-free electrooptic method for analyzing harmonic distortion of photodetectors with frequency-shifted heterodyne

Lei, D., Mu, Y., Wang, S., et al. (2025) · Optics Express · doi:10.1364/oe.579886

Microwave Photonic-Assisted Analog-to-Digital Converters Using Quantum Dash Mode-Locked Laser

Xie, Y., Liu, G., Liu, J., et al. (2025) · Journal of Lightwave Technology · doi:10.1109/jlt.2025.3586999

Investigation of Single-Section InAs/InP Quantum Dot Mode-Locked Lasers

Jiao, Z. (2014) · Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)

All optical analog-to-digital conversion: principal and recent progress

Konishi, T., Goto, H., Kato, T., et al. (2009)

Biomedical Signal Acquisition and Processing

Badnjević, A., & Spahić, L. (2026) · Series in bioengineering · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-10982-8_2

Photonic-assisted multi-band RF channelization and digitization for 5G frequency bands

Yentür, A., Keskin, M. Z., & Özdür, İ. (2026) · Engineering Research Express · doi:10.1088/2631-8695/ae43b1

Ultra-Broadband Photonically Assisted Analog-to-Digital-Converters

Witzens, J., Drayß, D., Fang, D., et al. (2026) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-08340-1_3

Nanophotointerrupteur avec optique intégrée pour échantillonnage hyperfréquence

Pagies, A. (2011) · doi:10.70675/bfe54060z4159z4bd4z8628zf72f7a7c2970

Non-Linear Dynamics in Semiconductor Nano-Structures for Signal Processing

Moille, G. T. (2016) · doi:10.70675/a1fcd415z32caz4b16zb213z665126c95152

Theoretical and experimental study of optical solutions for analog-to-digital conversion of high bit-rate signals

Nguyen, T.-H. (2015) · doi:10.70675/04867080z376dz4107z92dbz517b9be781bb

Contribution à l'étude de techniques pour l'affinement spectral de lasers : application aux diodes à blocage de modes destinées aux télécommunications optiques cohérentes

Sahni, M. O. (2018) · doi:10.70675/6aeb7755z759cz4953za152zf2ef06a43ef4

Oscillateurs optoélectroniques pour la génération de signaux microondes à grande pureté spectrale

Lelievre, O. (2018) · doi:10.70675/55be18e5za011z4dadzbe7bz2d7c5b362173

Echantillonnage de signaux radar par voie optoélectronique : étude des non-linéarités des photoconducteurs à cavité résonante

Desmet, Y. (2018) · doi:10.70675/2f94b09bz02a4z4be3z84dfz6e14328d0782

Dynamique et applications des boucles optiques à décalage de fréquence pour l'optique hyperfréquence et la métrologie

Billault, V. (2020) · doi:10.70675/24bbc41dza8a9z4130zbdd7zc635db2ed95e

Echantillonnage optique à base sur l'interféromètre Mach-Zehnder avec amplificateurs optiques à semi-conducteurs (SOA-MZI) pour applications analogiques

Kastritsis, D. (2022) · doi:10.70675/65f7ac63zdfbfz4c3ez8640z6642addbd1fd

Contribution au développement de radars MIMO opto-microondes courte portée

Berland, F. (2021) · doi:10.70675/995f4841z390az4434z952fz9d1ca7ed2f08

Étude et réalisation d'un déflecteur électro-optique en optique intégrée à base de matériaux polymères

Dugué, P.-V. (2021) · doi:10.70675/0e048f70z7a16z463cz8947z35394810a83a

Mise en oeuvre et caractérisation des boucles à décalage de fréquence électro-optique : métrologie dual-comb pour le lidar à haute résolution et les capteurs distribués

de Borggraef, L. A. (2024) · doi:10.70675/0ebb9c11z27a0z4d38z9550z4bbe51d0ae01

Optimisation de cavités laser fibrées et spectroscopie à deux peignes de fréquences

Malfondet, A. (2023) · doi:10.70675/e0cfc256z041cz451czaf54z5df34a55efd9

Oscillateur optoélectronique à modulation directe : Génération de signaux micro-ondes et d'impulsions optiques courtes

Sinquin, B. (2023) · doi:10.70675/93a3ce22z8c24z454bz8d7az7ca9d9b24134

Proposal of Compact Photonic Quantization Based on Dual-Output Mach-Zehnder Modulators

Wei, D., Zheng, H., & Chi, H. (2026) · Photonics · doi:10.3390/photonics13050461

Generation of narrow Nyquist pulses with suppressed trailing effects based on cascaded modulation and spectral shaping

Yuan, J., SIWEI, X., xiuxiu, X., et al. (2026) · Applied Optics · doi:10.1364/ao.600440

Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC) using Photonic Neural Network-assisted Quantization

Prapas, A., Tsamis, G., Tsakyridis, A., et al. (2026) · Optical Fiber Communication Conference · doi:10.1364/ofc.2026.w3c.5

Inter-channel mismatch correction for photonic time-wavelength-interleaved sampling-based analog-to-digital conversion

Chen, J., Ma, Y., Zhang, X., Dong, H., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Y., Wang, M., Li, J., Zhang, Z., Li, H., et al. (2026) · Optics Communications · doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2026.133472 · Cited by 1

РАДИОФОТОННЫЙ МНОГОКАНАЛЬНЫЙ СВЕРХШИРОКОПОЛОСНЫЙ ПРИЕМНЫЙ ТРАКТ ДЛЯ СИСТЕМ РАДИОЛОКАЦИИ. АНАЛИЗ ЭЛЕКТРОННЫХ И ФОТОННЫХ РЕШЕНИЙ

Белов, А. С., Morozov, O. G., Petrov, N., et al. (2026) · Electronics Photonics and Cyberphysical Systems · doi:10.65912/2782-5507.2026.20.1.004

High-fidelity control of superconducting qubits with an optically transmitted signal

Anonymous, Fan, D., Li, N., Chen, F., Li, S., Li, D., Xu, Y., Lin, J., Gong, M., Huang, H.-L., et al. (2026) · Physical Review A · doi:10.1103/m1wg-synr

Design and Analysis of a 1-Hot Encoded Electro-Optic ADC Achieving 7.5 GS/s Using Microring Resonator-Based Quantization

Kaiser, M. A.-A., Chakraborty, S., Sunder, S., Jacob, A. P., & Jaiswal, A. (2026) · IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) · doi:10.1109/mwscas67364.2026.11680720

ACCELERATING FOURIER DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY USING GENERAL PURPOSE GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS AND FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS

Li, J. (2011) · Summit (Simon Fraser University)

Timing Uncertainties of A/D Converters: Theoretical Study and Experiments

Janik, J.-M., & Bloyet, D. (2004) · IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement · doi:10.1109/tim.2003.820461 · Cited by 12

Optimization of Sampling Capacitors in High Resolution Pipelined A/D Converters

Zhao, Y. (2004) · Cited by 2

A novel quantization noise-cancellation scheme in wideband D/A converters

Ghosh, A., & Pamarti, S. (2011) · Conference proceedings · doi:10.1109/mwscas.2011.6026467 · Cited by 2

Simplified logic for first-order and second-order mismatch-shaping digital-to-analog converters

Welz, J., Galton, I., & Fogleman, E. (2001) · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II Analog and Digital Signal Processing · doi:10.1109/82.982352 · Cited by 47

High-Performance Photonic Analog-to-Digital Converters

Clark, T. R. (2001) · Optical Fiber Communication Conference and International Conference on Quantum Information · doi:10.1364/ofc.2001.wv1 · Cited by 1