Polarization insensitive widely tunable all-optical clock recovery based on AM mode-locking of a fiber ring laser

Author

Wang, Lijun ; Su, Yikai ; Agarwal, Anjali ; Kumar, Prem

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA

Volume

12

Issue

2

fYear

2000

Firstpage

211

Lastpage

213

Abstract

All-optical clock recovery based on injection mode locking of a fiber ring laser is demonstrated by utilizing a fast semiconductor saturable absorber. The recovered clock is jitter free and completely insensitive to the state of polarization of the injection signal. Moreover, the clock wavelength can be tuned over the whole gain bandwidth of the EDFA.

Keywords

laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre polarisation; ring lasers; sensitivity; synchronisation; wavelength division multiplexing; AM mode-locking; clock wavelength tuning; fast semiconductor saturable absorber; fiber ring laser; injection mode locking; injection signal polarisation state; jitter free; polarization insensitive widely tunable all-optical clock recovery; recovered clock; whole gain bandwidth; Bandwidth; Clocks; Fiber lasers; Jitter; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical fiber polarization; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.823520

Filename

823520