Tera-sample per second real-time waveform digitizer

8 December 2005

journal article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 87 (24)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2142087

Abstract

We demonstrate a real-time transient waveform digitizer with a record 1tera-samplepersecond sampling rate. This is accomplished by using a photonic time stretch preprocessor which slows down the electrical waveform before it is captured by an electronic digitizer.

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