Picosecond all-optical gate using a saturable absorber in mode-locked laser diodes

Author

Ogura, Ichiro ; Hashimoto, Yoichi ; Kurita, Hisakazu ; Shimizu, Takanori ; Yokoyama, Hiroyuki

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. & High Frequency Device Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

10

Issue

4

fYear

1998

fDate

4/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

603

Lastpage

605

Abstract

A novel application of mode-locked laser diodes (MLLD´s) for all-optical gate is described, A saturable absorber (SA) shows 8-ps-absorption recovery and has a small switching energy of 0.9 pJ. For this SA used as an all-optical gate in combination with the all-optical clock recovery function of MLLD´s, all-optical signal processing (demultiplexer and repeater) may be possible with a compact and robust configuration. To confirm the all-optical gate operation in MLLD´s, 40 to 10 Gb/s all-optical DEMUX is successfully demonstrated.

Keywords

demultiplexing; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical information processing; optical repeaters; optical saturable absorption; optical switches; semiconductor lasers; 0.9 pJ; 40 to 10 Gbit/s; 8 ps; Gb/s all-optical DEMUX; all-optical clock recovery function; all-optical signal processing; demultiplexer; mode-locked laser diodes; picosecond all-optical gate; ps-absorption recovery; repeater; robust configuration; saturable absorber; small switching energy; Diode lasers; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.662608

Filename

662608