title: Application of a passively mode-locked quantum-dot Fabry-Perot laser in 40 Gb/s all-optical 3R regeneration.
abstract: The application of a mode-locked quantum-dot Fabry-Perot (QD-FP) laser in a wavelength preserving all-optical 3R regenerator is demonstrated at 40 Gb/s. The 3R regenerator consists of a QD-FP laser for low-timing jitter clock recovery, cross-phase modulation based retiming, and self-phase modulation based reshaping. The performance of the alloptical 3R regenerator is assessed experimentally in terms of the Q-factor, timing jitter and bit-error ratio.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6.
authors.forename: Xuefeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Sung Han
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Chung
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