Title :
Effect of saturable absorption on the performance of a 40 GHz optical clock recovered from a monolithic semiconductor laser
Author :
Bao, Hone Chun ; Wen, Yang Jing ; Liu, Hai Feng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Vic., Australia
Abstract :
The effect of a saturable absorber (SA) on the performance of 40 GHz optical clock signal recovered from a monolithic semiconductor laser is investigated, in terms of timing jitter, locking range, and extinction ratio. Experiments show that using a SA improves the extinction ratio but reduces the locking range and increases sensitivity to the data mark ratio.
Keywords :
integrated optoelectronics; optical saturable absorption; semiconductor lasers; sensitivity; synchronisation; timing jitter; 40 GHz; GHz optical clock recovery; data mark ratio sensitivity; extinction ratio; locking range; monolithic semiconductor laser; optical saturable absorption; timing jitter; Absorption; Clocks; Extinction ratio; Laser mode locking; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Optical sensors; Optical variables control; Repeaters; Semiconductor lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Laser Conference, 2002. IEEE 18th International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7598-X
DOI :
10.1109/ISLC.2002.1041120
