OPTICAL ANALOGUE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER Russian patent published in 2021 - IPC G02F7/00 

FIELD: optics.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to specialized computer engineering and can be used in designing high-speed information processing devices and computer equipment. Optical analogue-to-digital converter has an optical radiation source, a K-output optical splitter (K = M + 1, M = 2^N-1, N - digit capacity of the analogue-to-digital converter), M optical transparencies, a voltage source, M optical comparators, electrooptical amplitude modulator, M-output optical splitter, M N-output optical splitters, N M-input optical couplers, N photodetectors.

EFFECT: invention provides faster conversion of electrical analogue signals into a position binary code.

1 cl, 2 dwg