General purpose system for digitizing an analog signal

Details General purpose system for digitizing an analog signal General purpose system for digitizing an analog signal

1991-09-06

1993-03-30

Logan, Sharon D.

Coded data generation or conversion

Analog to or from digital conversion

Using optical device,

341172, 341118, 35821315, H03M 106, H03M 122, H04N 5335

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051988160

ABSTRACT:
A general purpose programmable optical analyzer employs a nonlinear gain at the input stage of an analog to digital converter in order to limit the number of bits used to resolve shot noise.

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