Title :
Optical Clock Recovery Operation of a Colliding-Pulse Mode-Locked Laser Diode with Integrated Active-Passive Waveguides
Author :
Ji, C. ; Broeke, R.G. ; Fontaine, N.K. ; Cong, W. ; Cao, J. ; Du, Y. ; Chubun, N. ; Yoo, S.J.B. ; Liou, K.Y. ; Lothian, J.R. ; Chu, S.N.G. ; Patel, B. ; Hobson, W.S. ; Tishinin, D.V. ; Tsang, W.T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Davis, CA
Abstract :
We investigate the optical clock recovery operation of a colliding-pulse mode-locked laser with integrated active-passive waveguides. Nearly transformed-limited 10 GHz recovered clock signal was demonstrated with low timing jitter and error free performance
Keywords :
integrated optics; laser mode locking; optical repeaters; optical transmitters; optical waveguides; semiconductor lasers; synchronisation; timing jitter; colliding-pulse mode-locked laser diode; error free performance; integrated active-passive waveguides; optical clock recovery operation; timing jitter; Clocks; Diode lasers; Fiber lasers; Integrated optics; Laser mode locking; Optical pulse shaping; Optical saturation; Optical waveguides; Radio frequency; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.278923