Simultaneous repolarization of two 10-Gb/s polarization-scrambled wavelength channels using a mutual-injection-locked laser diode

Author

Chan, L.Y. ; Chung, W.H. ; Wai, P.K.A. ; Moses, B. ; Tam, H.Y. ; Demokan, M.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Kowloon, China

Volume

14

Issue

12

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1740

Lastpage

1742

Abstract

An all-optical polarizer, which can repolarize a highspeed data signal without converting the state-of-polarization variations into amplitude jitters, is realized using a mutual injection-locked laser diode. The all-optical polarizer is used to simultaneously realign the state-of-polarizations of two 10-Gb/s polarization-scrambled nonreturn to zero signals without state-of-polarization characterization and feedback control.

Keywords

laser mode locking; optical control; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical polarisers; semiconductor lasers; 10 Gbit/s; 10-Gb/s polarization-scrambled wavelength channels; Fabry-Perot laser; all-optical polarizer; dual-wavelength polarization compensation; high-speed data signal repolarization; mutual-injection-locked laser diode; optical networks; polarization control; polarization-scrambled nonreturn to zero signals; simultaneous repolarization; state-of-polarization realignment; Automatic control; Diode lasers; Feedback control; Injection-locked oscillators; Liquid crystals; Optical control; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Photonics; Tellurium;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.804652

Filename

1058270