Reconfigurable multifunctional operation using optical injection-locked vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Bo Zhang; Xiaoxue Zhao; Devang Parekh; Yang Yue; Werner Hofmann; Markus C. Amann; Connie J. Chang-Hasnain; Alan E. Willner

doi:10.1109/JLT.2009.2017926

Reconfigurable multifunctional operation using optical injection-locked vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Bo Zhang
, Xiaoxue Zhao
, Devang Parekh
, Yang Yue
, Werner Hofmann
, Markus C. Amann
, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain
, Alan E. Willner

Chair of Semiconductor Technology

University of Southern California
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Walter Schottky Institut

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2958-2963
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	27
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2009.2017926
State	Published - 1 Aug 2009

Keywords

Clock recovery
Data format conversion
Optical injection locking (OIL)
Reconfigurable optical networks
Ultrawide band
Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

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Reconfigurable multifunctional operation using optical injection-locked vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

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