• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 4, Issue 1, 0104 (2006)
Lina Yin*, Yumei Yan, Yunfeng Zhou, Jian Wu, and Jintong Lin
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  • Key Laboratory of Optical Communication and Lightwave Technologies of MOE, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876
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    Lina Yin, Yumei Yan, Yunfeng Zhou, Jian Wu, Jintong Lin. All-optical clock recovery from 10-Gb/s NRZ data and NRZ to RZ format conversion[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2006, 4(1): 0104 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A non-return-to-zero (NRZ) to pseudo-return-to-zero (PRZ) converter consisting of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) is proposed, by which the enhancement of clock frequency component and clock-to-data suppression ratio of the NRZ data are evidently achieved. All-optical clock recovery from NRZ data at 10 Gb/s is successfully demonstrated with the proposed NRZ-to-PRZ converter and a mode-locked SOA fiber laser. Furthermore, NRZ-to-RZ format conversion of 10 Gb/s is realized by using the recovered clock as the control light of terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD), which further proves that the proposed clock recovery scheme is applicable.
    Lina Yin, Yumei Yan, Yunfeng Zhou, Jian Wu, Jintong Lin. All-optical clock recovery from 10-Gb/s NRZ data and NRZ to RZ format conversion[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2006, 4(1): 0104
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