Patent ID: 8466819

Claim:
A system for selective wavelength interleaved filtering technique for analog to digital conversion, comprising: a remote aperture for analog input; a modulator operable to transform the analog input into an initial optical signal, a photonic front end having a plurality of optical filters operable to filter the optical signal into a plurality of subsequent optical signals and supply local oscillators for downconversion into electrical signals; a segmented subsystem having a plurality of analog-to-digital-converters (ADCs), each ADC operable to receive and convert one supplied electrical signal derived from the plurality of subsequent optical signals; and a process subsystem operable to reconstruct the plurality of converted subsequent optical signals into a digital representation of the analog input; wherein modulator distortion arising in the electrical to optical to electrical conversion process are compensated; and wherein at least one of the plurality of optical filters includes a self-registered filter wherein individual passbands are intrinsically aligned to one another.