Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 4, Issue 1, 0104(2006)
All-optical clock recovery from 10-Gb/s NRZ data and NRZ to RZ format conversion
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.
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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," Chin. Opt. Lett. 4, 0104 (2006)