Integrated Packet-Level All-Optical Clock Recovery Scheme Based on a Resonator and a Quantum Dot Optical Amplifier

Author

Song, Xibin ; Koukoumidis, I. ; Avrutin, E.A.

Author_Institution

Univ. of York, York

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

99

Lastpage

101

Abstract

A simple all-optical clock recovery circuit consisting of a Fabry-Perot or ring resonator followed by a quantum dot amplifier in the saturation regime is proposed and simulated. The scheme uses the combination of strong gain saturation that can be achieved in a quantum dot amplifier and the ultrafast gain recovery in the saturation regime due to the recovery time being related to the capture, not recombination time. Clock recovery at bit rates of 80+ Gb/s has been simulated.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; quantum dot lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; synchronisation; Fabry-Perot resonator; packet-level all-optical clock recovery circuit; quantum dot optical amplifier; ring resonator; ultrafast gain recovery; Clocks; Integrated optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical saturation; Quantum dots; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296040

Filename

4296040