Fabry-Pérot QDash mode-locked laser for sub-harmonic all-optical clock recovery and demultiplexing of 160 and 320 Gb/s RZ coherent signals

Author

Parra-Cetina, J. ; Jun Luo ; Calabretta, Nicola ; Dorren, H.J.S. ; Landais, P.

Author_Institution

RINCE Inst., Dublin City Univ., Dublin, Ireland

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, we present the experimental investigation of all-optical clock recovery at 40 Gb/s from RZ coherent signal at bit rates of 160 and 320 Gb/s based on a FP- QDash modelocked laser. The recovered clock is evaluated with phase noise and timing jitter measurements and used to demultiplex the high bit rates to tributaries at 40 Gb/s. The recovered clock at 320 Gb/s retrieves an outstanding RMS timing jitter of 45 fs.

Keywords

demultiplexing; laser mode locking; solid lasers; timing jitter; Fabry-Perot Q-dash mode-locked laser; RZ coherent signals; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; bit rate 320 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; demultiplexing; phase noise measurement; subharmonic all-optical clock recovery; time 45 fs; timing jitter measurement; Clocks; High-speed optical techniques; Integrated optics; Optical character recognition software; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; All-optical clock recovery; demultiplexing; modelocked laser; quantum dash; timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cartagena

ISSN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602761

Filename

6602761