Abstract
Electro-optical feedback circuit is presented and analyzed. The method realizes a closed-loop positive feedback by feeding the electrodes of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with the voltage produced by its own detection circuit. In its basic form, it is shown to act as a multi-level opto-electric quantizer. The quantization behavior disclosed herein is realized via the opto-electric conversion process itself. The circuit is modeled by an equivalent electronic representation with which the static and dynamic behavior of the circuit is characterized. A component-level electro-optical simulation is included, supporting the theoretical results.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 5000108 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-8 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Apr 2024 |
Keywords
- EO modulators
- Optical signal detection
- electro-optic (EO) devices
- optical signal processing
- quantization