Optical Companding

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel nonlinear optical computing method called optical companding, which compresses signal dynamic range and enhances digital signal-to-noise ratio through non-uniform quantization.

Contribution

It introduces a new optical computing approach that combines nonlinear processing with signal compression and improved quantization in the optical domain.

Findings

Demonstrates improved signal-to-noise ratio in digital domain

Achieves non-uniform quantization through optical means

Provides a new framework for optical signal processing

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.