40-Gb/s optical clock recovery using a compact traveling-wave electroabsorption modulator-based ring oscillator

Author

Hu, Zhaoyang ; Chou, Hsu-Feng ; Bowers, John E. ; Blumenthal, Daniel J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

16

Issue

5

fYear

2004

fDate

5/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1376

Lastpage

1378

Abstract

Compact optical clock recovery is demonstrated by utilizing filtered and amplified photocurrent in a traveling-wave electroabsorption modulator. The 40-GHz optical clock was recovered from a 40-Gb/s optical time-division multiplexed signal and transferred to a new clock wavelength. The recovered optical clock has 500-fs timing jitter and 8-ps pulsewidth.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; optical communication equipment; optical information processing; oscillators; synchronisation; time division multiplexing; timing jitter; 40 GHz; 40 Gbit/s; 500 fs; 8 ps; optical clock recovery; optical time-division multiplexed signal; photocurrent; ring oscillator; timing jitter; traveling-wave electroabsorption modulator; Clocks; Nonlinear optics; Optical character recognition software; Optical feedback; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical wavelength conversion; Photoconductivity; Ring oscillators; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.826056

Filename

1291516