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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610328
