Title :
Clock recovery of phase modulated optical OFDM superchannel
Author :
Power, M.J. ; Jia, Weihua ; Webb, R.P. ; Manning, R.J. ; Garcia Gunning, F.C.
Author_Institution :
Photonic Syst. Group, Tyndall Nat. Inst., Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
We report a novel all-optical clock recovery technique for a BPSK OFDM superchannel. Four-wave mixing in SOAs strips the modulation from the superchannel sub-carriers, two of which beat in a photodiode to recover the clock.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; multiwave mixing; optical communication; optical modulation; phase shift keying; photodiodes; semiconductor optical amplifiers; synchronisation; BPSK OFDM superchannel; SOA strips; all-optical clock recovery technique; four wave mixing; phase modulated optical OFDM superchannel; photodiode; superchannel sub-carriers; Band-pass filters; Binary phase shift keying; Clocks; Frequency modulation; OFDM; Optical filters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.W3F.1
