160 to 40Gb/s Demultiplexing Using a Self-Pulsating Laser Based Clock Recovery
Abstract
Optical demultiplexing from 160 to 40 Gb/s was carried out using self-pulsating laser based clock recovery. Error free operation demonstrated the good jitter characteristics of the optical clock. It was found that the self-pulsating laser is a compact, dc operated device. It was stated that the device can be implemented for complete all-optical demultiplexers using gate architectures that can be driven directly with optical clock pulses.
