Phase correlation in self-pulsating distributed Bragg reflector semiconductor lasers for all-optical clock recovery

Author

Renaudier, J. ; Cosset, C. ; Gallion, P. ; Debregeas-Sillard, H. ; Legouezigou, O. ; Thedre, B. ; Duan, G.H.

Author_Institution

Ecole Nat. Superieure des Telecommun., Paris, France

fYear

2004

fDate

25-25 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

13

Abstract

Self-pulsation around 40 GHz with narrow spectral linewidth is obtained in distributed Bragg reflector semiconductor lasers. A theoretical model demonstrates that four-wave mixing is responsible for linewidth narrowing, an experimental signature of phase correlation.

Keywords

distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser mode locking; laser noise; multiwave mixing; optical correlation; optical pulse generation; phase noise; semiconductor device models; semiconductor lasers; spectral line narrowing; synchronisation; 40 GHz; all-optical clock recovery; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; four-wave mixing; linewidth narrowing; narrow spectral linewidth; passive mode-locking; phase correlation; phase noise measurement; self-pulsating lasers; self-pulsation; semiconductor lasers; Clocks; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Frequency modulation; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Laser noise; Laser theory; Phase noise; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Laser Conference, 2004. Conference Digest. 2004 IEEE 19th International

Conference_Location

Matsue-shi

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8627-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISLC.2004.1382729

Filename

1382729