Title :
All-Optical Clock Recovery with Retiming and Reshaping Using a Silicon Evanescent Mode Locked Ring Laser
Author :
Koch, Brian R. ; Fang, A.W. ; Poulsen, H.N. ; Hyundai Park ; Blumenthal, D.J. ; Bowers, John E. ; Jones, Roy ; Paniccia, Mario J ; Cohen, Oren
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
A novel silicon evanescent mode locked ring laser is used to perform all-optical clock recovery from 30.4 Gb/s data. The recovered clock has dramatically improved jitter, ER, and pulse reshaping compared to the input data.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical pulse shaping; optical repeaters; quantum well lasers; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; silicon; synchronisation; Si; all-optical clock recovery; bit rate 30.4 Gbit/s; laser mode locking; pulse reshaping; silicon evanescent mode locked ring laser; Clocks; Laser mode locking; Ring lasers; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528369
