Title :
Sub-harmonic injection-locking of quantum dash lasers through spectral enrichment for all-optical clock recovery
Author :
Srivastava, Manas ; Anandarajah, Prince ; Srinivasan, Balaji ; O´Duill, Sean ; Venkitesh, Deepa ; Landais, Pascal
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Madras, Chennai, India
Abstract :
We perform injection-locking of a passively mode-locked Fabry-Perot quantum dash laser at 40 GHz using 10 Gbps PRBS data in NRZ-OOK format after spectral enrichment and thus demonstrate all-optical clock recovery through sub-harmonic injection-locking.
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; laser mode locking; optical communication equipment; quantum dash lasers; NRZ-OOK format; PRBS data; all-optical clock recovery; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; frequency 40 GHz; passively mode-locked Fabry-Perot quantum dash laser; spectral enrichment; subharmonic injection-locking; Clocks; Optical modulation; Optical saturation; Quantum dots; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
