All-optical clock recovery for 40-Gb/s MZM-generated NRZ-DPSK signals using a self-pulsating DBR laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 1443-1445

  Tang, Xuefeng ^a   Cartledge, John C ^a   Shen, Alexandre ^b   Dijk, Frederic V ^b   Duan, Guang Hua ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ALCATEL THALES III V LAB   (France)

Author keywords

All optical clock recovery; Differential phaseshift keying (DPSK); Distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CLOCKS; BRAGG CELLS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; ELECTRIC CLOCKS; JITTER; LASER OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING JITTER;

40 GB/S; ALL-OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY; CLOCK SIGNALLING; DBR LASERS; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFT-KEYING; DIFFERENTIAL PHASESHIFT-KEYING (DPSK); DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR (DBR) LASER; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASERS; DPSK SIGNALS; EXTINCTION RATIO; INPUT SIGNALS; MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATOR; MODULATED SIGNALS; MODULATION FORMATS; NON-RETURN TO ZERO; OPTICAL SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSIONS; RECOVERED CLOCK SIGNAL; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SELF-PULSATING LASERS; SIGNAL YIELDS; TIMING JITTERS; WAVEFORM DISTORTIONS;

CLOCKS;

EID: 49249138089     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.927888     Document Type: Article

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