Optical clock repetition-rate multiplier for high-speed digital optical logic circuits
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 24 (11) , 717-719
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.24.000717
Abstract
Repetition-rate multiplication has been shown by use of a fiber ring oscillator with a semiconductor optical amplifier as the gain medium and by use of fast saturation and recovery of the amplifier from an external optical pulse train. Repetition-frequency multiplication up to 6 times and up to 34.68-GHz frequency have been achieved.Keywords
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