title: Low-timing-jitter all-optical clock recovery for 40 Gbits/s RZ-DPSK and NRZ-DPSK signals using a passively mode-locked quantum-dot Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser.
abstract: We investigate experimentally all-optical clock recovery for return-to-zero (RZ) and nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) signals at 40 Gbits/s using a passively mode-locked quantum-dot Fabry-Perot (QD-FP) semiconductor laser. The QD-FP laser exhibits a beat spectrum linewidth of 80 kHz, which enables a recovered clock signal with a root-mean-square timing jitter of 160 fs for the RZ-DPSK signal and 240 fs for the NRZ-DPSK signal. The timing jitter of the recovered clock signal is characterized for different values of the input signal power and the input signal optical signal-to-noise ratio.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Xuefeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Cartledge
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Akram
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Akrout
authors.forename: Guang-Hua
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Duan