Title :
All-optical clock recovery for data packets
Author :
Yiannopoulos, K. ; Pleros, N. ; Bintjas, C. ; Kalyvas, M. ; Theophilopoulos, G. ; Avramopoulos, H. ; Guekos, G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
Abstract :
An all-optical clock recovery unit is demonstrated at 10 Gbps, appropriate for use with short optical packets. The circuit uses a Fabry-Perot etalon and a UNI gate and achieves clock recovery within a few bits.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot interferometers; distributed feedback lasers; optical communication equipment; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; synchronisation; Fabry Perot etalon; UNI gate; all-optical clock recovery unit; clock recovery; short optical packets; Circuits; Clocks; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Polarization; Ring lasers; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
All-Optical Networking: Existing and Emerging Architecture and Applications/Dynamic Enablers of Next-Generation Optical Communications Systems/Fast Optical Processing in Optical Transmission/VCSEL and
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7378-2
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2002.1027587
