All-optical clock division with mode-locked figure-eight laser based on the slow carrier recovery rate in semiconductor optical amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 402-404

  Xu, Lei ^b   Yao, Minyu ^c   Wang, Bing C ^b   Glesk, Ivan ^a,b   Prucnal, Paul R ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Mode locked lasers; Optical communication; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Time division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CARRIER RECOVERY RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA);

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0036503163     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.986827     Document Type: Article

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4. Performance and scalability of an all-optical clock recovery figure eight laser