All-optical clock recovery from RZ-format data by using a two-section gain-coupled DFB laser

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1705-1714

  Mao, Weiming ^a   Li, Yuhua ^a   Al Mumin, Mohammed ^a,b   Li, Guifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback (DFB) laser; Injection locked oscillators; Laser modes; Optical clock recovery; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; INJECTION LASERS; LASER MODES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; TIMING JITTER; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

GAIN COUPLED LASER; INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS; INJECTION WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY; PHASE NOISE; POLARIZATION INSENSITIVITY; RETURN TO ZERO FORMAT DATA; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036767105     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2002.802214     Document Type: Article

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