All-optical timing extraction at 40 GHz using amode-locked figure-eight laser with an SLA
- 28 September 1995
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 31 (20) , 1759-1761
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19951180
Abstract
All-optical timing extraction using a figure-eight laser with a semiconductor nonlinearity generates a synchronised 40 GHz output pulse stream which displays lower timing jitter than the input stream. A high contrast ratio recovered clock is observed over a ~200 kHz locking range.Keywords
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