Experimental Demonstration of a Photonic Analog-to-Digital Converter Architecture With Pseudorandom Sampling

A photonic analog-to-digital converter architecture is demonstrated that uses nonuniform, sub-Nyquist sampling combined with digital signal processing algorithms to unambiguously identify microwave signals of interest.
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-band (8-12 GHz) operation is demonstrated with two-tone signals of separation extending to >2 GHz that were directly sampled and digitized at a mean rate of 995.3 MHz resulting in alias-free power spectra.