Title :
All optical clock recovery of 40 GHz quantum dash mode-locked laser to return-to-zero 160 Gb/s data stream
Author :
Cetina, Josue Parra ; Jun Luo ; Calabretta, Nicola ; Landais, P.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. Eng., Dublin City Univ., Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
In this work, we present the quantum dash mode-locked laser diode (QDash-MLLD) based optical clock recovery (OCR) operation from a high speed return-to-zero on-off keying (RZ-OOK) lacking in the free-running frequency components, in our case at 40 GHz.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; quantum dash lasers; synchronisation; all optical clock recovery; free-running frequency components; frequency 40 GHz; high speed return-to-zero on-off keying; quantum dash mode-locked laser diode; High-speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical character recognition software; Optical pulses; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0593-5
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801263