Optical clock recovery using SOA for relative timing extraction between counterpropagating short picosecond pulses

A technique that determines the relative arrival timing difference between two counterpropagating picosecond pulses in a nonlinear waveguide is presented. Optical clock recovery experiment constructed around a semiconductor optical amplifier demonstrates a recovered clock with less than 100 fs of ji...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE photonics technology letters 2002-03, Vol.14 (3), p.396-398
Main Authors: Awad, E.S., Richardson, C.J.K., Cho, P.S., Moulton, N., Goldhar, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clock recovery
Clocks
Error analysis
Jitter
Nonlinear optics
Optical pulses
Optical waveguides
Picosecond pulses
Pseudorandom
Pulse amplifiers
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Semiconductor waveguides
Stimulated emission
Time measurements
Timing
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:A technique that determines the relative arrival timing difference between two counterpropagating picosecond pulses in a nonlinear waveguide is presented. Optical clock recovery experiment constructed around a semiconductor optical amplifier demonstrates a recovered clock with less than 100 fs of jitter. The bit-error-rate measurement at 10 GHz, using 2/sup 31/-1 long pseudorandom bit sequence data, revealed error free operation.
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/68.986825