An 18 GHz Bandwidth, 60 GS/s Sample Rate Real-time Waveform Digitizing System

A new method is described that provides for large increases in performance of real-time waveform digitizers. This method employs a unique mixture of microwave and digital signal processing (DSP) techniques. The use of this new architecture in the design of the fastest real-time waveform digitizer in the world is described in detail.