Synchronous optical demultiplexing and sampling of 80-Gb/s OTDM signals by optically recovered clock using mode-locked laser diode and symmetric Mach-Zehnder switch

Author

Miyazaki, T. ; Sotobayashi, H. ; Chujo, W.

Author_Institution

Independent Administrative Instn., Commun. Res. Lab., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

14

Issue

12

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1734

Lastpage

1736

Abstract

A demonstration of optical demultiplexing of an 80-Gb/s signal through a fiber transmission line by using an injection mode-locked laser diode (LD) to perform all-optical subharmonic clock recovery to control a symmetric Mach-Zehnder demultiplexer is described. Moreover, simultaneous optical sampling by the recovered clock was also demonstrated.

Keywords

demultiplexing; laser mode locking; optical fibre communication; semiconductor lasers; symmetry; synchronisation; time division multiplexing; 80 Gbit/s; Gb/s OTDM signal sampling; all-optical subharmonic clock recovery; fiber transmission line; injection mode-locked laser diode; mode-locked laser diode; optically recovered clock; recovered clock; simultaneous optical sampling; symmetric Mach-Zehnder demultiplexer; symmetric Mach-Zehnder switch; synchronous optical demultiplexing; Clocks; Demultiplexing; Diode lasers; Optical control; Optical modulation; Optical switches; Optical transmitters; Sampling methods; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.804659

Filename

1058268