Repetition rate upgrade for optical sources

Author

Yiannopoulos, K. ; Vyrsokinos, K. ; Pleros, N. ; Tsiokos, D. ; Bintjas, C. ; Guekos, G. ; Avramopoulos, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

15

Issue

6

fYear

2003

fDate

6/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

861

Lastpage

863

Abstract

A novel method for the multiplication of the repetition rate of full duty-cycle return-to-zero optical sources is presented. It employs the memory property of a Fabry-Perot filter for the multiplication task, combined with the gain saturation of a semiconductor optical amplifier for amplitude equalization. This concept has been applied to quadruplicate the rate of a distributed feedback laser source operating at 10 GHz.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot interferometers; amplitude modulation; distributed feedback lasers; interference filters; optical saturation; optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 10 GHz; Fabry-Perot filter; amplitude equalization; distributed feedback laser source; full duty-cycle return-to-zero optical sources; gain saturation; memory property; multiplication task; optical sources; repetition rate upgrade; semiconductor optical amplifier; Amplitude modulation; Distributed feedback devices; Optical feedback; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Optical saturation; Optical transmitters; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.811343

Filename

1200224