All-Optical Clock Extraction at 160 Gbit/s with Monolithic Mode-Locked Laser Diodes

Roland SCHREIECK  Martin KWAKERNAAK  Heinz JACKEL  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E84-C   No.6   pp.841-844
Publication Date: 2001/06/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Lasers, Quantum Electronics
Keyword: 
optical signal processing,  semiconductor laser,  optical systems,  optical switching,  

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Summary: 
We demonstrate all-optical clock recovery at 160 Gbit/s by injection locking of a 10 GHz mode-locked laser diode. Effective locking in a range of 10 MHz is observed for average input powers around -10 dBm. The timing jitter is analyzed for data rates between 10 Gbit/s and 160 Gbit/s. Beyond 40 Gbit/s, the high frequency timing jitter of the slave laser becomes of prime importance and has to be taken into account since it degrades the performance of a subsequent receiver. Increasing power penalties are found, especially beyond 80 Gbit/s.