Optical Noise Tolerance in a Polarization-, Wavelength-, and Filter-Free All-Optical Clock Recovery System Based on a Monolithic Mode-Locked Laser

We experimentally investigated optical noise tolerance of a polarization-, wavelength-, and filter-free all-optical clock recovery system based on a monolithic mode-locked laser diode. The results showed that for input signal degradation, the jitter of the recovered clock did not degrade to approximately 8 dB/nm of the optical SNR. We also compared the clock recovery performance as functions of the wavelength and the modulation format (on-off keying and phase-shift keying) of the input data signals. We revealed that no significant changes were measured in the clock recovery performance despite such changes in the parameters of the input data signals, indicating that noise-tolerable clock recovery is expected, retaining the polarization- and the filter-free operations, regardless of the wavelength and the modulation format of the input data signals, by using our new scheme.     

Cavity-Resonant Behaviors of All-Optical Synchronization and Clock Recovery in Passively Mode-Locked Laser Diodes

We experimentally and theoretically investigated the synchronization characteristics in all-optical synchronization and clock recovery of the passively mode-locked laser diode (MLLD), and the relationship with the optical-cavity resonant behaviors of the input optical signals in the cavity of the MLLD. The dependences on the wavelength detuning, the data format, the injection power, the mark-to-space ratio, the input data pattern, and the intensity fluctuations of the injected optical signals were experimentally discussed in detail. It was clearly concluded from the experimental results that the optical cavity-resonant behavior of the incoming optical signals in the cavity of the MLLD was a determinant factor of the locking mechanism in the all-optical synchronization of the MLLD and that the optical-injection locking mechanism was not a dominant effect. The experimental results were examined based on a simple theoretical model including the enhancement of the effective modulation due to the optical-cavity resonance. By using the model we succeeded in explanation of the trends of the experimental results.     

Polarization-Insensitive All-Optical 160-Gb/s Clock Recovery With a Monolithic Passively Mode-Locked Laser Diode in Polarization-Diversity Configuration

A new polarization-diversity configuration was proposed and demonstrated for all-optical, polarization-insensitive clock recovery using a mode-locked laser diode. The system was easily achieved only by adding an adequate length of polarization-maintaining fiber to a conventional polarization-dependent clock recovery setup. Stable clock recovery with small polarization dependence less than 0.5 dB was successfully achieved remaining at low timing jitter of less than 0.17 ps with no significant changes in the pulse characteristics. We also succeeded in the stable clock recovery for the input of polarization-scrambled data signals.     

40-Gb/s Polarization-Insensitive All-Optical Clock Recovery Using a Quantum-Dot Fabry–PÉrot Laser Assisted by an SOA and Bandpass Filtering

We experimentally demonstrate polarization- insensitive all-optical clock recovery using a passively mode-locked quantum-dot Fabry–PÉrot (QD-FP) semiconductor laser at 40 Gb/s. Polarization insensitivity is achieved by using a wavelength conversion stage based on cross-phase modulation in a semiconductor optical amplifier and optical bandpass filtering. A clock signal with a root-mean-square timing jitter of 300 fs is recovered for an input data signal with a scrambled state-of- polarization (SOP). This is comparable to that from the QD-FP laser alone for an input signal with a fixed SOP. Moreover, an improvement in the tolerance to a degradation in the optical signal-to-noise ratio of the input signal is achieved by the use of the wavelength conversion stage.      

Single and Multiwavelength All-Optical Clock Recovery Using Fabry–PÉrot Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

We experimentally demonstrate an all-optical clock recovery scheme for the return-to-zero data with single- and multiwavelength. This scheme is mainly based on clock-like pulse generation from an active filter with a multiquantum-well Fabry–PÉrot semiconductor optical amplifier and amplitude-equalization with self-nonlinear polarization switching. We obtain stable and low jitter optical clock signals in single and dual channels using this scheme, which has some distinct advantages including easy integration, free preamplification, convenient tuning, good tolerance to long “0s” data, and greater tolerance to the stability of the input wavelength.      

Clock Recovery at 160 Gb/s and Beyond, Using a Fiber-Based Optical Power Limiter

We propose a simple all-optical clock recovery technique for short data packets at 160 Gb/s, and beyond, which is based on the concept of using a Fabry-Peacuterot filter (FPF). The novel feature of the technique is the use of a highly nonlinear fiber followed by an optical bandpass filter, centered at the initial carrier wavelength, which acts as an ultrafast power limiter, removing drastically the amplitude modulation of the FPF's output and providing the clock signal     

A Baud-Rate Timing Recovery Scheme With a Dual-Function Analog Filter

This brief presents a baud-rate timing recovery scheme that is aided by signals generated from a dual-function analog filter. The analog filter functions as a simultaneous low-pass and bandpass filter to generate the data and its slope, respectively. Peaking is introduced in the low-pass data path to equalize a lossy channel. The timing recovery loop utilizes the equalized data and slope signals obtained from the dual-function analog filter to recover a clock based on a modified minimum mean squared error (MMSE) criterion. Unlike previously published baud-rate techniques for multigigabit per second nonreturn-to-zero data, this technique can lock to either random or alternating data patterns, even from a closed eye. As a proof of concept, a prototype dual-function analog filter was fabricated in a 0.18-mum CMOS process and used to recover a 2-GHz clock from a 2-Gb/s 2³¹-1 random data sequence based on the modified MMSE criterion     

A 1-MHz-bandwidth second-order continuous-time quadrature bandpass sigma-delta modulator for low-IF radio receivers

This paper presents a quadrature bandpass /spl Sigma//spl Delta/ modulator with continuous-time architecture. Due to the continuous-time architecture and the inherent anti-aliasing filter, the proposed /spl Sigma//spl Delta/ modulator needs no additional anti-aliasing filter in front of the modulator in contrast to quadrature bandpass /spl Sigma//spl Delta/ modulators with switched-capacitor architectures. The second-order /spl Sigma//spl Delta/ modulator digitizes complex analog I/Q input signals at 1-MHz intermediate frequency and operates within a clock frequency range of 25-100 MHz. The modulator chip achieves a peak signal-to-noise-distortion ratio (SNDR) of 56.7 dB and a dynamic range of 63.8 dB within a 1-MHz signal bandwidth and at a clock frequency of 100 MHz. Furthermore, it provides an image rejection of at least 40 dB. The 0.65-/spl mu/m BiCMOS chip consumes 21.8 mW at 2.7-V supply voltage.     

新型微带抽头式发夹型带通滤波器的设计*

利用ADS(Advanced Design System)软件设计、研究了一种新型的微带抽头式发夹型带通滤波器。该 滤波器工作在S 波段,相比较于传统的微带抽头式发夹型带通滤波器,该滤波器在信号的输入输出端各加入了一段 四分之一波长的开路微带线,很好地抑制了邻近的寄生通带,使滤波器具有了良好的阻带特性。同时在该滤波器的 谐振单元间并联了一段长度为λ / 2 的微带线,在该滤波器通带两侧增加了一对传输零点,使滤波器的选择性得到 了极大的优化。最后还对所设计的新型滤波器进行了实物加工和测试,测试结果和仿真结果吻合较好。     

Versatile universal voltage-mode filter employing DDCCs

A new versatile universal voltage-mode biquad with three inputs and five outputs using only two differential difference current conveyors (DDCCs), two grounded capacitors, and three resistors is proposed. The proposed configuration which can be used as either a single-input five-output filter or three-input two-output filter and which can simultaneously realize all five different generic filtering lowpass, bandpass, highpass, bandstop, and allpass signals is unlike the previously reported works and still enjoys (i) the employment all grounded capacitors, (ii) no need to employ inverting-type input signals, (iii) orthogonal control of the resonance angular frequency and the quality factor, (iv) simultaneous realization of lowpass, bandpass, highpass, bandstop, and allpass responses for the single-input five-output filter, and (v) no need to impose component choice to realize all five generic responses for the three-input two-output filter.     

Photonic Microwave Bandpass Filter With Negative Coefficients Using a Polarization Modulator

A novel photonic microwave bandpass filter with negative coefficients implemented using a polarization modulator (PolM) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the proposed filter, a lightwave from a tunable laser source (TLS) is sent to a PolM, with the incident lightwave adjusted to have its polarization direction aligned at an angle of plusmn45deg to the principal axes of the PolM. A microwave signal is applied to the PolM through its RF port. Thanks to the polarization modulation in the PolM, two complementary microwave signals with identical amplitudes carried by two optical carriers with orthogonal polarizations are generated. The two complementary optical microwave signals are then sent to an optical delay line consisting of one section or two sections of polarization-maintaining fiber (PMF), with the polarization directions aligned with the fast and slow axes of the PMF. A photonic microwave bandpass filter with two or four taps is obtained     

Simultaneous Demodulation and Clock-Recovery of 40-Gb/s NRZ-DPSK Signals Using a Multiwavelength Gaussian Filter

We demonstrate a novel optical circuit that has the potential of simultaneous demodulation and all-optical clock-recovery of 40-Gb/s wavelength-division-multiplexing nonreturn-to-zero differential phase-shift keying (NRZ-DPSK) signals. A key device of the circuit is an ad hoc periodic fiber Bragg grating filter that simultaneously demodulates the input signals and seeds a series of clock recovery circuits. We report the complete characterization of the proposed scheme in the whole-band using a tunable transmitter. The DPSK demodulated signals show enhanced resilience to chromatic dispersion with respect to the usual NRZ _ON-OFF keying format. On the other hand, the recovered clock signals are very stable and have around 200-fs root-mean-square time jitter.     

320-to-40-gb/s demultiplexing using a single SOA assisted by an optical filter

We demonstrate excellent all-optical demultiplexing of 40-Gb/s base-rate channels out of 160- and 320-Gb/s single polarization optical time-division-multiplexed data streams. The demultiplexer utilizes a semiconductor optical amplifier and an optical filter placed at the amplifier output. The center wavelength of the filter is blue-shifted from the wavelength of the clock signal, so that ultrafast chirp dynamics can be employed for optical switching. Error-free demultiplexing was achieved at very low optical switch powers: 3.5 mW (160-Gb/s data), 6.3 mW (320-Gb/s data), and 0.09 mW (40-GHz clock). The proposed demultiplexer has a simple structure and allows monolithic integration.     

恶化非归零码信号的全光时钟恢复

全光时钟提取结构应对输入信号的恶化程度有一定的容忍度.在一种半导体光放大器(SOA) 啁啾光纤布拉格光栅(CFBG) 受激布里渊散射(SBS)的方式实现非归零(NRZ)码信号的全光时钟提取结构中,半导体光放大器和啁啾光纤布拉格光栅共同作用实现了非归零码信号的时钟分量增强,基于受激布里渊散射的全光时钟提取结构提取出非归零码的光时钟信号.实验通过对不同恶化程度的非归零码信号的时钟提取比较发现,恶化信号的信噪比是影响光时钟提取的关键.输入非归零码信号的信噪比越差,光时钟信号光谱的噪声水平越高,提取出的光时钟信号的幅度越低.当时钟增强非归零码信号的时钟数据抑制比低于-10 dB时,无法实现非归零码信号的时钟提取.     

All-Optical Clock Recovery Using Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Incorporating an Electroabsorption Modulator and a Linear Optical Amplifier

We demonstrated a 10-GHz all-optical clock recovery system using an erbium-doped fiber laser that incorporates an electroabsorption modulator and a linear optical amplifier. Stable pulses with peak power of 200 mW and pulsewidth of 6 ps are obtained. The output power and the pulsewidth of the recovered clock pulses are independent of the input data pattern. Stable optical clock can still be observed when the input data rate varies by more than 60% of the fundamental frequency without any optical tunable delay line inside the laser cavity. The scheme is essentially wavelength transparent for the whole C-band which recovers clock pulses from input data wavelength between 1525 and 1565 nm     

A PLL-based 2.5-Gb/s GaAs clock and data regenerator IC

A GaAs IC that performs clock recovery and data retiming functions in 2.5-Gb/s fiber-optic communication systems is presented. Rather than using surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter technology, the IC employs a frequency- and phase-lock loop (FPLL) to recover a stable clock from pseudo-random non-return-to-zero (NRZ) data. The IC is mounted on a 1-in×1-in ceramic substrate along with a companion Si bipolar chip that contains a loop filter and acquisition circuitry. At the synchronous optical network (SONET) OC-48 rate of 2.488 Gb/s, the circuit meets requirements for jitter tolerance, jitter transfer, and jitter generation. The data input ambiguity is 25 mV while the recovered clock has less than 2° rms edge jitter. The circuit functions up to 4 Gb/s with a 40-mV input ambiguity and 2° RMS clock jitter. Total current consumption from a single 5.2-V supply is 250 mA     

Novel Continuously Tunable Microwave Photonic Bandpass Filter

A new technique for tuning the passband frequency of a microwave photonic bandpass filter is presented. It is based on controlling the polarization state of the signal in an amplified recirculating delay line loop with a polarizer at the output. A fixed wavelength laser can be used as an optical source. The filter has a sharp passband, which can be tuned continuously while maintaining the same passband width. Experimental results demonstrate continuous tuning capability of the high-resolution bandpass filter.     

Detailed Theoretical and Experimental Characterization of 10 Gb/s Clock Recovery Using a Q-Switched Self-Pulsating Laser

A detailed characterization of the clock recovery properties of a self-pulsating, three-section distributed feedback laser is presented by directly comparing simulation and experimental results for the dependence of the RMS timing jitter of the recovered clock signal on important properties of the input signal. These properties include the duty cycle, peak power, extinction ratio, state-of-polarization, optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR), and waveform distortion due to residual group velocity dispersion and polarization mode dispersion. The permissible range for each of these is identified in terms of the RMS timing jitter of the recovered clock signal being less than 2 ps. In particular, the self-pulsating laser is effective for input signals degraded by amplified spontaneous emission noise as it provides this level of jitter performance for input OSNRs larger than 8.8 dB (0.1 nm noise bandwidth).     

An adaptive notch-filter-based frequency-difference detector andits applications

A frequency-difference detector (FDD) based on an adaptive notch filter is proposed. Frequency detectors are useful in decreasing acquisition times in phase-locked-loop and Costas-loop-based clock and carrier-recovery systems. To avoid certain drawbacks associated with signal down-conversion to baseband, the input is initially processed in the bandpass domain. In applications where limits on acquisition time demand a wide closed-loop tracking bandwidth, the output of the proposed FDD has less inherent ripple and bias when compared with a quadricorrelator, a commonly used FDD. Two applications of the proposed FDD in the demodulation of BPSK data are presented     

多带通信号直接均匀欠采样技术

该文讨论了宽带数字接收机中对多个复或实的带通信号的直接均匀采样。对这多个通带位置及带宽均是任意的实或复的带通信号给出了采样率应满足的关系,用此采样率采样使输入数据得到有效的压缩,同时结合滤波器将频谱进行搬移,最后给出了实例。