Title :
High-speed optical time-division multiplexed line- to base-rate clock recovery with an electro-optic phase locked loop
Author :
Carruthers, Thomas F. ; Lou, Janet W.
Author_Institution :
Div. of Opt. Sci., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
We present a simple and robust clock recovery technique which samples all OTDM channels, in which an electro-optic Mach Zehnder modulator (MZM) and a slow photodiode pair act as a phase detector driving a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) in a phase locked loop
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; optical phase locked loops; photodiodes; synchronisation; telecommunication channels; time division multiplexing; voltage-controlled oscillators; OTDM channels; clock-recovery system; electro-optic Mach Zehnder modulator; electro-optic phase locked loop; optical time-division multiplexed data rates; phase detector; slow photodiode pair; voltage-controlled oscillator; Clocks; Detectors; Electrooptic modulators; High speed optical techniques; Optical modulation; Phase detection; Phase modulation; Photodiodes; Robustness; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7105-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2001.969220
