Bit-rate flexible all-optical clock recovery

Sartorius, B.; Bornholdt, C.; Brox, O.; Ehrke, H.J.; Hoffmann, D.; Ludwig, R.; Mohrle, M.

1999

Conference Paper

Abstract

A 5 GHz to 20 GHz bit-rate flexible all-optical clock is presented. 10 GHz and 20 GHz pulse trace analysis and 8 Gbit/s to 11 Gbit/s bit-error-rate measurements demonstrate the system qualification. The applied self-pulsating distributed feedback laser is compact, integratable, and requires no RF electronics.