Title :
80- to 10-Gb/s clock recovery using an electro-optic phase-locked loop
Author :
Carruthers, Thomas F. ; Lou, Janet W.
Author_Institution :
Opt. Sci. Div., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
A Mach-Zehnder modulator is used as an electro-optic phase detector to lock a local oscillator to the 10-GHz base rate of an 80-Gb/s time-division multiplexed data stream.
Keywords :
electro-optical devices; electro-optical modulation; optical communication equipment; phase locked loops; synchronisation; time division multiplexing; 10 GHz; 10 Gbit/s; 80 Gbit/s; Mach-Zehnder modulator; PLL; TDM; bootstrapping; clock recovery; demultiplexer; electro-optic phase detector; electro-optic phase-locked loop; local oscillator locking; time-division multiplexed data stream; Clocks; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Phase locked loops; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989629
