title: Characterization of a compressively sampled photonic link.
abstract: The emerging field of compressive sampling has potentially powerful implications for the design of analog-to-digital sampling systems. In particular, the mathematics of compressive sampling suggests that one can recover a signal at a smaller sampling interval than is dictated by the rate at which the samples are digitized. In a recent work the authors presented an all-photonic implementation of such a system and experimentally demonstrated the basic operating principles. This paper offers a more in-depth study of the system, including a more detailed description of the hardware, issues involved in real-time implementation, and how choice of signal model and model fidelity can influence the reconstruction.
authors.affiliation: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA. jonathan.nichols@nrl.navy.mil
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Nichols
authors.forename: C V
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: McLaughlin
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bucholtz
authors.forename: J V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Michalowicz