"Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion" by Barry L. Shoop

This volume provides a comprehensive look at the application of photonic approaches to the problem of analog-to-digital conversion. It looks into the progress made to date, discusses present research, and presents a glimpse of potential future technologies.

The book provides look at the application of photonic devices and architectures to the problem of A/D conversion; includes a complete description of A/D converter performance characteristics, the various approaches to A/D conversion, and an introduction to several photonic devices used in photonic A/D converters, and it includes a detailed treatment of the application of both temporal and spatial oversampling techniques to photonic A/D conversion.

Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Performance Characteristics of Analog-to-Digital Converters
3. Approaches to Analog-to-Digital Conversion
4. Photonic Devices for Analog-to-Digital Conversion
5. Nyquist-Rate Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion
6. Oversampled Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion
7. Low Resolution, Two-Dimensional Analog-to-Digital Conversion: Digital Image Halftoning
8. A Photonic-Based Error Diffusion Neural Network
9. Photonic A/D Conversion Based on a Fully Connected, Distributed Mesh Feedback Architecture
10. Trends in Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion
References
Index