TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconfigurable multifunctional operation using optical injection-locked vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
AU - Zhang, Bo
AU - Zhao, Xiaoxue
AU - Parekh, Devang
AU - Yue, Yang
AU - Hofmann, Werner
AU - Amann, Markus C.
AU - Chang-Hasnain, Connie J.
AU - Willner, Alan E.
PY - 2009/8/1
Y1 - 2009/8/1
N2 - In this paper, we extend the system application of optical injection-locked (OIL) vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) to future optical networks by realizing multifunctional operation using a filter-assisted OIL-VCSEL scheme that can be reconfigured. By using a single chirp-adjustable injection-locked VCSEL (either single mode or multimode) followed by a tunable delay line interferometer, we experimentally demonstrate three functions, showing ultra-wide band (UWB) monocycle generation, nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) to pseudoreturn-to-zero (PRZ) data format conversion, and NRZ-data clock recovery at 10 Gb/s.
AB - In this paper, we extend the system application of optical injection-locked (OIL) vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) to future optical networks by realizing multifunctional operation using a filter-assisted OIL-VCSEL scheme that can be reconfigured. By using a single chirp-adjustable injection-locked VCSEL (either single mode or multimode) followed by a tunable delay line interferometer, we experimentally demonstrate three functions, showing ultra-wide band (UWB) monocycle generation, nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) to pseudoreturn-to-zero (PRZ) data format conversion, and NRZ-data clock recovery at 10 Gb/s.
KW - Clock recovery
KW - Data format conversion
KW - Optical injection locking (OIL)
KW - Reconfigurable optical networks
KW - Ultrawide band
KW - Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)
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U2 - 10.1109/JLT.2009.2017926
DO - 10.1109/JLT.2009.2017926
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67651151537
SN - 0733-8724
VL - 27
SP - 2958
EP - 2963
JO - Journal of Lightwave Technology
JF - Journal of Lightwave Technology
IS - 15
ER -