All-optical clock-division operation using a mode-locked fiber laser based on the slow carrier recovery rate of SOA

Author

Xu, Lei ; Wang, Bing C. ; Baby, Varghese ; Glesk, Ivan ; Prucnal, PAul R. ; Yao, Minyu ; Zhang, Jianfeng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

87

Abstract

Summary form only given. In OTDM systems, separate channels at the same frame rate are multiplexed in time domain into a high-speed aggregate data stream. To access the individual time slots, high-speed all-optical clock division can be used to generate optical clock signal at the frame rate for time-domain demultiplexing. We build a numerical model of a mode-locked semiconductor fiber laser that uses a TOAD as an optical modulator and performs clock division. Moreover, we show that clock division operation can be realized when the SOA in the TOAD has a relatively slow carrier recovery rate

Keywords

demultiplexing equipment; laser mode locking; optical fibre amplifiers; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; EDFA; OTDM systems; SOA; TOAD; all-optical clock-division operation; high-speed aggregate data stream; mode-locked fiber laser; numerical model; optical clock signal generation; optical modulator; optical time division multiplexing; semiconductor optical amplifiers; slow carrier recovery rate; time-domain demultiplexing; very short carrier lifetime; Aggregates; Clocks; Demultiplexing; Fiber lasers; High speed optical techniques; Laser mode locking; Numerical models; Optical modulation; Signal generators; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.969186

Filename

969186