• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 19, Issue 8, 081901 (2021)
Ya Guo1、4, Qiang Cai1, Zhiwei Jia1, Bingjie Xu5, Zhensen Gao2, Qianwu Zhang3, Ruonan Zhang4, Adonis Bogris6, K. Alan Shore7, Yuncai Wang2, and Pu Li1、2、3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
  • 2School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • 3Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • 4School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
  • 5Science and Technology on Communication Security Laboratory, Institute of Southwestern Communication, Chengdu 610041, China
  • 6Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of West Attica, Athens 12243, Greece
  • 7School of Electronic Engineering, Bangor University, Wales LL57 1UT, United Kingdom
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202119.081901 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Ya Guo, Qiang Cai, Zhiwei Jia, Bingjie Xu, Zhensen Gao, Qianwu Zhang, Ruonan Zhang, Adonis Bogris, K. Alan Shore, Yuncai Wang, Pu Li. Real-time and ultrafast optical pulse quantization based on slicing the supercontinuum[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2021, 19(8): 081901 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    All-optical analog-to-digital conversion is a paramount issue in modern science. How to implement real-time and ultrafast quantization to optical pulses with different intensities in an all-optical domain is a central problem. Here, we report a real-time demonstration of an all-optical quantization scheme based on slicing the supercontinuum in a nonlinear fiber. In comparison with previous schemes through off-line analysis of the power of different optical spectral components in the supercontinuum, this, to the best of our knowledge, is the first demonstration of such functionality online in the time domain. Moreover, the extinction ratio among the quantized outputs can exceed 10 dB, which further confirms the feasibility of the proposed quantization scheme. The current 3 bit resolution in the proof-of-principle experiment is limited by the current experimental condition, but it can be expected to be greatly enhanced through improving both the spectral width of the generated supercontinuum and the number of filtering channels used.
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    Ya Guo, Qiang Cai, Zhiwei Jia, Bingjie Xu, Zhensen Gao, Qianwu Zhang, Ruonan Zhang, Adonis Bogris, K. Alan Shore, Yuncai Wang, Pu Li. Real-time and ultrafast optical pulse quantization based on slicing the supercontinuum[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2021, 19(8): 081901
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