Abstract:
In order to decrease the power consumption of the electrooptical and resolve the high consistency with halfwave voltage of the inner MachZehnder (MZ) modulators in the phase encoder, using two biased MZ modulators, a 2bits electrooptical phase encoder for electrooptical analogtodigital conversion (EO ADC) was set up. The construction methods, features and performances of the 2bits electrooptical phase encoder were analyzed theoretically. The simulation results verified the feasibility of the 2bits electrooptical phase encoding method. The simulation experiments also fulfilled analogtodigital conversion for signals at 1 GHz with sampling rate of 12 GS/s. The analysis and simulation results show that the proposed method has low requirement for the consistency of the modulators and the input signal power is lower than 0.32 W. The analysis results also show that the quantization of the least significant bit is immune from the modulators directcurrent(DC) drift, while the decision uncertainty of the most significant bit influenced by the DC drift is lower than 3.8 %.