All-optical seed pulse extraction for packet synchronization based on self-induced effects in a vertical-cavity semiconductor gate

Author

Porzi, C. ; Calabretta, N. ; Guina, M.

Author_Institution

Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Volume

18

Issue

14

fYear

2006

fDate

7/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1509

Lastpage

1511

Abstract

Self-induced effects in a passive polarization-independent vertical-cavity semiconductor gate are investigated numerically and experimentally. We demonstrate all-optical seed-pulse extraction for synchronization of differential phase-shift keying and ON-OFF keying packets at 10 Gb/s. Our results provide evidence that vertical-cavity gates, exploiting saturable absorption in semiconductor quantum-wells, exhibit attractive performances in terms of efficiency, power consumption, and polarization independency.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; light polarisation; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical saturable absorption; phase shift keying; quantum well devices; synchronisation; 10 Gbit/s; all-optical seed pulse extraction; differential phase-shift keying; on-off keying packets; packet synchronization; passive polarization independence; power consumption; saturable absorption; self-induced effects; semiconductor quantum wells; synchronization; vertical-cavity semiconductor gate; Absorption; Differential phase shift keying; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Optical polarization; Optical resonators; Optical wavelength conversion; Quantum well devices; Reflectivity; Scanning probe microscopy; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Optical signal processing; packet self-synchronization; packet switching; quantum-well devices;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.877590

Filename

1644790