• DocumentCode
    2721725
  • Title

    All-optical clock recovery in a semiconductor fiber laser and a nonlinear optical loop modulator with wavelength-switching capability

  • Author

    Hernández-Cordero, Juan ; Chen, Lawrence R. ; Rochette, Martin

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. de Investig. en Mater., UNAM, Mexico City
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    7-10 July 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate all-optical clock recovery with switchable wavelengths from 10 Gb/s RZ data using a semiconductor fiber laser that is mode-locked with a nonlinear optical loop mirror. The performance is independent of the data wavelength.
  • Keywords
    fibre lasers; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; optical modulation; optical switches; semiconductor lasers; synchronisation; all-optical clock recovery; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; mode-locked laser; nonlinear optical loop mirror; nonlinear optical loop modulator; semiconductor fiber laser; wavelength-switching capability; Clocks; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the
  • Conference_Location
    Sydney
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-85825-807-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-85825-807-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610328
  • Filename
    4610328