Title :
All-optical laser synchronization and clock recovery based on dynamic parametric gain modulation
Author :
Wang, L. ; Su, Y. ; Agarwal, A. ; Kumar, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA
Abstract :
A novel all-optical scheme for laser synchronization and clock recovery is demonstrated by combining the parametric gain modulation in a pulse-pumped nonlinear loop mirror with soliton shaping in a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; multiwave mixing; optical Kerr effect; optical fiber amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical phase matching; optical solitons; self-phase modulation; synchronization; time division multiplexing; EDFA gain; Fabry-Perot cavity; Kerr nonlinearity; all-optical laser synchronization; clock recovery; cross phase modulation; dynamic parametric gain modulation; four wave mixing; mode locking; nonlinear amplifying loop mirror; phase matching; pulse-pumped nonlinear loop mirror; soliton shaping; ultrahigh-speed TDM; Clocks; Mirrors; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2000
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-630-3
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2000.868575
