Time-stretch analog-to-digital converter

<p>The time-stretch analog-to-digital converter (TS-ADC), also known as the time-stretch enhanced recorder (TiSER), is an <a href="/facts/Analog-to-digital_converter/8YYNsMFg">analog-to-digital converter</a> (ADC) system that has the capability of <a href="/facts/Digitizing/RRdE9Ma9">digitizing</a> very high <a href="/facts/Bandwidth_(signal_processing)/7eMDzfJI">bandwidth</a> <a href="/facts/Signal_(electrical_engineering)/41YqUJ8c">signals</a> that cannot be captured by conventional <a href="/facts/Electronics/E4JhgISq">electronic</a> ADCs. Alternatively, it is also known as the <a href="/facts/Photonic/6UHcPXbq">photonic</a> time-stretch (PTS) digitizer, since it uses an <a href="/facts/Optics/p0vq4S1T">optical</a> <a href="/facts/Front-end_and_back-end/QVUfH8gu">frontend</a>. It relies on the process of time-stretch, which effectively slows down the <a href="/facts/Analog_signal/xDbb4uB5">analog signal</a> in time (or compresses its bandwidth) before it can be digitized by a standard electronic ADC.
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Time-stretch analog-to-digital converter