Title :
40 Gb/s fast-locking all-optical packet clock recovery
Author :
Stampoulidis, L. ; Kehayas, E. ; Avramopoulos, H. ; Liu, Y. ; Tangdiongga, E. ; Dorren, H.J.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Nat. Tech. Univ. ofAthens, Athens, Greece
Abstract :
We demonstrate instantaneous 40 Gbit/s clock extraction from 1 ns long data packets separated by 750 ps. The circuit comprises a Fabry-Perot filter and an all-optical power limiting gate and requires very short inter-packet guardbands.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical filters; optical switches; packet switching; synchronisation; 1 ns; 40 Gbit/s; 750 ps; Fabry-Perot filter; all-optical packet clock recovery; all-optical power limiting gate; fast-locking clock recovery; instantaneous clock extraction; inter-packet guardbands; Bandwidth; Circuits; Clocks; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical resonators; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-783-0
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2005.192915
