Timing jitter reduction by all-optical regeneration using a polarization bistable VCSEL

Author

Mori, Takashi ; Sato, Yuuki ; Yamayoshi, Yasuhiro ; Kawaguchi, Hitoshi

Author_Institution

CREST, Japan Sci. & Technol. Agency, Tokyo

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

All-optical signal regeneration was experimentally demonstrated using a polarization bistable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser. The timing jitter of the regenerated signal was reduced by optimizing injection power of a clock pulse for retiming operation.

Keywords

laser beams; optical bistability; optical information processing; surface emitting lasers; timing jitter; all-optical signal regeneration; injection power optimization; polarization bistable VCSEL; polarization bistable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; retiming operation; timing jitter reduction; Clocks; Optical polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation; Repeaters; Surface emitting lasers; Timing jitter; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; (070.4340) Nonlinear optical signal processing; (190.1450) Bistability; (230.1150) All-optical devices; (250.7260) Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628370

Filename

4628370