A photonic analog-to-
digital conversion system and
chip based on
wavelength multiplexing and optical capture, which utilizes a
wavelength division
multiplexer to combine N continuous lights of different wavelengths into one light, loads sampled analog signals on the N light paths, makes the analog signals on the light paths of different wavelengths obtain different time
delay amounts through a time
delay control module, the time
delay amount difference of adjacent two light paths is equal, and the
time domain discretization of N
equal time interval analog signals is realized by using an optical capture module. The present application utilizes passive devices such as a
wavelength division
multiplexer, greatly reduces the number of
active devices such as electro-optic modulators, can effectively reduce the
chip complexity and link loss, and thus improves the performance of the photonic analog-to-
digital conversion chip. The use of passive devices instead of
active devices can effectively reduce the chip
power consumption and improve the stability. The chip can increase the number of continuous
laser light sources and the channel number of the wavelength division
multiplexer /
demultiplexer through simple configuration, and can multiply the sampling rate of the photonic analog-to-
digital conversion chip, and has the ability of large-scale expansion.