Title :
Clock recovery circuit for optical packets
Author :
Bintjas, C. ; Yiannopoulos, K. ; Pleros, N. ; Theophilopoulos, G. ; Kalyvas, M. ; Avramopoulos, H. ; Guekos, G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Athens Nat. Tech. Univ., Greece
Abstract :
We demonstrate an all-optical clock recovery circuit for operation with short data packets of 10-Gb/s rate. The circuit uses a Fabry-Perot etalon and a nonlinear UNI gate and is capable of acquiring the clock signal within a few bits.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot interferometers; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre networks; optical switches; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; synchronisation; waveguide lasers; 10 Gbit/s; Fabry-Perot etalon; InGaAsP-InP; all-optical clock recovery circuit; bulk InGaAsP-InP ridge waveguide semiconductor optical amplifier; clock signal acquisition; nonlinear UNI gate; optical packet switched networks; optical packets; short data packets; ultrafast nonlinear interferometer; Circuits; Clocks; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Synchronization; Ultrafast optics;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2002.801095
