Patent ID: 11868025
Assignee: LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. An apparatus, comprising:
a waveform source for providing an input voltage waveform;
a source of laser light for providing laser light;
a series of Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs), wherein each MZM of said series comprises two optical arms;
the waveform source being configured for applying said input voltage waveform to one arm of said each MZM, wherein a first MZM of said series of said MZMs is configured to receive said laser light into its two optical arms and produce an output optical signal that is directed into the two arms of a second MZM of said series of MZMs, wherein said each MZM of said plurality of MZMs is configured to receive the respective output optical signal produced by its immediately preceding MZM, wherein the last MZM of said series produces a final output optical signal; and
an amplified detector configured to receive said final output optical signal to produce an output voltage waveform.