Title :
Low timing jitter all-optical clock recovery for 40-Gb/s NRZ-DPSK data using a quantum-dot Fabry-Perot laser
Author :
Tang, Xuefeng ; Cartledge, John C. ; Akrout, Akram ; Shen, Alexandre ; Duan, Guang-Hua
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, ON
Abstract :
We demonstrate experimentally low-timing-jitter all-optical clock recovery for 40-Gb/s NRZ-DPSK signals using a mode-locked quantum-dot Fabry-Perot laser. The clock recovery performance shows a high tolerance to optical noise and signal waveform distortion.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; differential phase shift keying; laser mode locking; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical noise; quantum dot lasers; synchronisation; timing jitter; NRZ-DPSK signals; all-optical clock recovery; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; laser mode locking; optical noise; quantum-dot Fabry-Perot laser; signal waveform distortion; timing jitter; Clocks; Fabry-Perot; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Quantum dots; Radio frequency; Timing jitter;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Acapulco
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1931-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1932-6
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688524
