Patent ID: 9698915
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G02F,H04B

Claim:
1. A system for processing a signal comprising: a non-linear material component for receiving an input signal, the non-linear material component having a non-linear electric susceptibility, wherein the non-linear electric susceptibility of the non-linear material component is selected to mix the input signal with an optical pump wave to output an optical signal, wherein the optical signal has at least one sideband corresponding to the input signal; a parametric amplifier coupled to the non-linear material component to obtain the optical signal and to amplify the optical signal to generate an amplified signal and an amplified idler comprising a conjugate image of the amplified signal; a frequency converter, coupled to one of: the parametric amplifier or the nonlinear material, to obtain the amplified signal and the amplified idler from the parametric amplifier and to convert the amplified signal and the amplified idler into a first output and a second output, wherein the first output comprises a first signal quadrature and the second output comprises a second signal quadrature; and a first spectral sampling and processing apparatus to obtain and process the first output.