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
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