Title :
Optical NRZ to RZ format conversion based on a frequency-doubling optoelectronic oscillator
Author :
Pan, Shilong ; Yao, Jianping
Author_Institution :
Microwave Photonics Res. Lab., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
12.4-Gb/s NRZ to RZ format conversion is performed using a frequency-doubling optoelectronic oscillator that requires only 6.2-GHz devices. The system is applicable for multichannel operation and NRZ to carrier-suppressed RZ (CSRZ) format conversion.
Keywords :
integrated optoelectronics; optical communication; optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; bit rate 12.4 Gbit/s; carrier suppressed return-to-zero format conversion; frequency doubling optoelectronic oscillator; multichannel operation; nonreturn-to-zero-return-to-zero format conversion; optical NRZ-to-RZ format conversion; Bandwidth; Clocks; Data mining; Frequency conversion; High speed optical techniques; Optical frequency conversion; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343328
