40 Gb/s all optical clock recovery based on an optical parametric oscillator with photonic crystal fiber

Author

Lui, L. F K ; Zhang, Ailing ; Wai, P.K.A. ; Tam, H.Y. ; Demokan, M.S.

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. Centre & Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hong Kong

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate 40 Gb/s optical clock recovery based on optical parametric oscillator using a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber as the dynamic gain medium. The timing jitter of the recovered clock signal is 270 fs.

Keywords

nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical parametric oscillators; photonic crystals; synchronisation; timing jitter; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; dynamic gain medium; highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber; optical clock recovery; optical parametric oscillator; time 270 fs; timing jitter; Clocks; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Oscillators; Photonic crystal fibers; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the

Conference_Location

Sydney

Print_ISBN

978-0-85825-807-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-85825-807-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610463

Filename

4610463