Subharmonic Optical Clock Recovery from 160 Gb/s Using Time-Dependent Loss Saturation Inside a Single Electroabsorption Modulator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1764-1766

  Awad, Ehab S ^a,b   Cho, Pak S ^a,b   Moulton, Norman ^a,b   Goldhar, Julius ^a,b  

^a LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical timing extraction; Electroabsorption modulator (EAM); Nonlinear optical signal processing; Optical clock recovery; Optical communications

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CLOCKS; DEMULTIPLEXING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LOW PASS FILTERS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIMING JITTER;

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0347603418     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.819743     Document Type: Article

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