Multifunctional and reconfigurable 10-GHz operation of an optical injection-locked VCSEL

Author

Zhang, B. ; Zhao, X. ; Parekh, D. ; Yue, Y. ; Hofmann, W. ; Amann, M. ; Chang-Hasnain, C. ; Willner, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Using a single chirp-adjustable injection-locked 1.55-mum multi-mode VCSEL followed by a tunable interferometer, we experimentally demonstrate three reconfigurable 10 GHz functions, showing UWB generation, NRZ-to-PRZ format conversion, and clock recovery.

Keywords

chirp modulation; laser tuning; light interferometers; optical fibre communication; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; synchronisation; NRZ-to-PRZ format conversion; UWB generation; clock recovery; laser chirp; optical injection-locked VCSEL; tunable interferometer; Chirp; Clocks; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Phase modulation; Tunable circuits and devices; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; (060.4250) Networks; (250.7260) Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225818