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
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