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1998
Journal Article
Title
Analysis and compression of pulses emitted from an all-optical clock recovery module
Abstract
The pulses emitted from an all-optical clock recovery module based on a self-pulsating DFB laser are analysed using a streak camera. Pulse compression using fibres with negative dispersion is investigated. The initial pulse width of 28 ps is compressed to 15 ps applying a dispersion of -59 ps/nm. The extinction ratio of the clock pulses is better than 15 dB.
Keyword(s)
distributed feedback lasers
optical fibre communication
optical fibre dispersion
optical information processing
optical pulse compression
streak cameras
synchronisation
pulse compression
all-optical clock recovery module
self-pulsating dfb laser
streak camera
negative dispersion
initial pulse width
extinction ratio
optical signal processing
15 ps