Patent ID: 8548331

Claim:
A receiver including a photonic processing component comprising: a receiver configured to detect an analog signal; a pulsed laser emitting a series of optical pulses at a predetermined sampling rate; timing control circuitry configured to receive the series of optical pulses and output a plurality of timing signals based on the series of optical pulses; an optical splitter to split the series of optical pulses into at least a first optical signal and an optical reference signal; a phase modulator configured to optically sample the received analog signal using the first optical signal to output a sampled optical signal; a plurality of optical signal switches that receive a sampled optical signal and at least one of the plurality of timing signals to time deinterleave the optically sampled signal into a first time deinterleaved optically sampled signal and a second time deinterleaved optically sampled signal; a plurality of optical reference switches that receive the optical reference signal and at least one of the plurality of timing signals to time deinterleave the second optical signal into a first time deinterleaved optical reference signal and a second time deinterleaved optical reference signal; and a plurality of signal processors wherein each signal processor receives at least one time deinterleaved optically sampled signal and at least one time deinterleaved optical reference signal.