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Optical Companding

Optics 2018-01-03 v1

Abstract

We introduce a new nonlinear analog optical computing concept that compresses the signal's dynamic range and realizes non-uniform quantization that reshapes and improves the signal-to-noise ratio in the digital domain.

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@article{arxiv.1801.00007,
  title  = {Optical Companding},
  author = {Yunshan Jiang and Bahram Jalali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00007},
  year   = {2018}
}
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