Title :
Novel concept for all-optical clock recovery from NRZ format PRBS data streams
Author :
Slovak, J. ; Bornholdt, C. ; Bauer, S. ; Kreissl, J. ; Schlak, M. ; Sartorius, B.
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Synchronization of a self-pulsating phaseCOMB-laser to NRZ data signals is demonstrated for the first time. The clock signal extracted from 40 Gb/s PRBS stream shows a good timing stability in a wide input power range.
Keywords :
binary sequences; fibre lasers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; phase control; random sequences; synchronisation; 40 Gbit/s; all-optical clock recovery; clock signal extraction; nonreturn to zero format; phase controlled mode beating laser synchronization; pseudorandom bit sequence; self-pulsating laser; timing stability; wide input power range; Chirp; Clocks; Data mining; Frequency synchronization; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Phase locked loops; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215908
