Wavelength-tunable all-optical clock recovery using a fiber-optic parametric oscillator

Yikai Su, Lijun Wang, Anjali Agarwal, Prem Kumar

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Abstract

We report a wavelength-tunable clock recovery scheme for all-optical 3R regeneration and simultaneous wavelength conversion. The scheme is based on a fiber-optic parametric oscillator, in which dynamic gain results from the four-wave mixing process in the fiber. In our implementation, 2.9 ps clock pulses are recovered from the incident pseudo-random data stream with the clock wavelength being tunable over the whole erbium-doped-fiber-amplifier bandwidth. RF spectrum measurements show that the recovered clock has less timing jitter than the incident data stream. We also present a two-channel clock recovery experiment, which demonstrates the feasibility of our scheme at 100 Gbit/s data rate.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)151-156
Number of pages6
JournalOptics Communications
Volume184
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2000

Funding

This work was supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, through the AFOSR, under grant no. F49620-96-1-0262.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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