An optical analog-to-digital converter for bitwise coding
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3103/S0735272708080025Abstract
It is proposed an optical ADC for bitwise coding, which is applied for both electric and optic signals conversion to binary code. ADC operation speed is comparative with purely optic information processing devices.
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