160-gb/s optical clock recovery using a regeneratively mode-locked laser diode

Author

Tsuchida, Hidemi

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. Inst., Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Tsukuba

Volume

18

Issue

16

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1687

Lastpage

1689

Abstract

Line rate optical clock recovery at 160-Gb/s has been demonstrated based on injection-locking and optical time-division multiplexing of a 40-GHz regeneratively mode-locked laser diode (RML-LD). Injection-locking is achieved by directly coupling the 160-Gb/s data streams to a photodetector in the RML-LD feedback loop. The pulsewidth and root-mean-square timing jitter of the recovered clocks are 2.31 ps and 225 fs (10 Hz-40 MHz), respectively

Keywords

feedback; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; photodetectors; semiconductor lasers; synchronisation; time division multiplexing; timing jitter; 10E-6 to 40 MHz; 160 Gbit/s; 2.31 ps; 225 fs; 40 GHz; data streams; feedback loop; injection-locking; laser diode; optical clock recovery; optical time-division multiplexing; photodetector; recovered clocks; regenerative mode locking; root-mean-square timing jitter; Clocks; Diode lasers; Feedback loop; Optical feedback; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Repeaters; Space vector pulse width modulation; Clock synchronization; injection-locked oscillators; optical signal processing; time-division multiplexing; timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.879930

Filename

1664919