• DocumentCode
    816156
  • Title

    Clock recovery circuit for optical packets

  • Author

    Bintjas, C. ; Yiannopoulos, K. ; Pleros, N. ; Theophilopoulos, G. ; Kalyvas, M. ; Avramopoulos, H. ; Guekos, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Athens Nat. Tech. Univ., Greece
  • Volume
    14
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2002
  • Firstpage
    1363
  • Lastpage
    1365
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate an all-optical clock recovery circuit for operation with short data packets of 10-Gb/s rate. The circuit uses a Fabry-Perot etalon and a nonlinear UNI gate and is capable of acquiring the clock signal within a few bits.
  • Keywords
    Fabry-Perot interferometers; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre networks; optical switches; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; synchronisation; waveguide lasers; 10 Gbit/s; Fabry-Perot etalon; InGaAsP-InP; all-optical clock recovery circuit; bulk InGaAsP-InP ridge waveguide semiconductor optical amplifier; clock signal acquisition; nonlinear UNI gate; optical packet switched networks; optical packets; short data packets; ultrafast nonlinear interferometer; Circuits; Clocks; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Synchronization; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2002.801095
  • Filename
    1032381