All-optical clock division with mode-locked figure-eight laser based on the slow carrier recovery rate in semiconductor optical amplifier

被引：10

作者：

Xu, L ^{[1
]}

Yao, MY

Wang, BC

Glesk, I

Prucnal, PR

机构：

[1] Princeton Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[2] Tsing Hua Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China

来源：

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS | 2002年 / 14卷 / 03期

关键词：

mode-locked lasers; optical communication; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time-division multiplexing;

D O I：

10.1109/68.986827

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

With a mode-locked figure-eight laser, we demonstrate the clock division operation using a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) with a slow carrier recovery rate. We show stable clock division at 2.5 GHz and two output states at half the repetition rate of the 10-GHz input pulses. The forming pulses in the laser cavity will interact with each other at the onset of mode locking when the SOA in the laser has a relatively slow carrier recovery rate. A numerical model of the laser is built to simulate the generation of clock division.

引用

页码：402 / 404

页数：3

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