Reconfigurable Multifunctional Operation Using Optical Injection-Locked Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

Author

Zhang, Bo ; Zhao, Xiaoxue ; Parekh, Devang ; Yue, Yang ; Hofmann, Werner ; Amann, Markus C. ; Chang-Hasnain, Connie J. ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

27

Issue

15

fYear

2009

Firstpage

2958

Lastpage

2963

Abstract

In this paper, we extend the system application of optical injection-locked (OIL) vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) to future optical networks by realizing multifunctional operation using a filter-assisted OIL-VCSEL scheme that can be reconfigured. By using a single chirp-adjustable injection-locked VCSEL (either single mode or multimode) followed by a tunable delay line interferometer, we experimentally demonstrate three functions, showing ultra-wide band (UWB) monocycle generation, nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) to pseudoreturn-to-zero (PRZ) data format conversion, and NRZ-data clock recovery at 10 Gb/s.

Keywords

chirp modulation; laser mode locking; optical delay lines; surface emitting lasers; VCSEL; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; clock recovery; nonreturn-to-zero-to-pseudoreturn-to-zero data format conversion; optical injection locking; reconfigurable multifunctional operation; tunable delay line interferometer; ultra-wide band monocycle generation; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; Clock recovery; data format conversion; optical injection locking (OIL); reconfigurable optical networks; ultrawide band; vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2009.2017926

Filename

4840467