Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074
All-Optical Clock Recovery from NRZ-DPSK Signals at Flexible Bit Rates
YU Yu;ZHANG Xin-Liang;DONG Jian-Ji;HUANG De-Xiu
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074
摘要We propose and demonstrate all-optical clock recovery (CR) from nonreturn-to-zero differential phase-shift-keying (NRZ-DPSK) signals at different bit rates theoretically and experimentally. By pre-processing with a single optical filter, clock component can be enhanced significantly and thus clock signal can be extracted from the preprocessed signals, by cascading a CR unit with a semiconductor optical amplifier based fibre ring laser. Compared with the previous preprocessing schemes, the single filter is simple and suitable for different bit rates. The clock signals can be achieved with extinction ratio over 10dB and rms timing jitter of 0.86 and 0.9 at 10 and 20Gb/s, respectively. The output performances related to the bandwidth and the detuning of the filter are analysed. By simply using a filter with larger bandwidth, much higher operation can be achieved easily.
Abstract：We propose and demonstrate all-optical clock recovery (CR) from nonreturn-to-zero differential phase-shift-keying (NRZ-DPSK) signals at different bit rates theoretically and experimentally. By pre-processing with a single optical filter, clock component can be enhanced significantly and thus clock signal can be extracted from the preprocessed signals, by cascading a CR unit with a semiconductor optical amplifier based fibre ring laser. Compared with the previous preprocessing schemes, the single filter is simple and suitable for different bit rates. The clock signals can be achieved with extinction ratio over 10dB and rms timing jitter of 0.86 and 0.9 at 10 and 20Gb/s, respectively. The output performances related to the bandwidth and the detuning of the filter are analysed. By simply using a filter with larger bandwidth, much higher operation can be achieved easily.
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