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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2008
Applicant:
Mehran Mokhtari, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Inventor:
Mehran Mokhtari, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Assignee:
Tialinx, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, an opto-electronic analog-to-digital converter is provided that includes: an optical comb generator for generating a plurality of optical comb lines; a tunable optical filter adapted to select a portion of the optical comb lines responsive to an analog signal being digitized; a diffractive media for spatially mapping the selected optical comb lines and an array of photodetectors for detecting the spatially mapped optical comb lines.