A conversion system that uses optical processing to expand an analog signal in time, effectively compressing its bandwidth, before feeding it into a standard electronic analog-to-digital converter. This allows conventional digitizers to capture ultra-fast transient events that would otherwise exceed their maximum sampling rate.
Heard on the job
We're using a time stretch analog-to-digital converter to capture the sub-nanosecond pulses from the laser without losing resolution.
Also heard as
- TS-ADC