All-Optical Clock Division Using Period-one Oscillation of Optically Injected Semiconductor Laser

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10.2991/lemcs-14.2014.48How to use a DOI?

Keywords

semiconductor lasers; nonlinear optics; clock division; optical injection; time-division multiplexing.

Abstract

Nonlinear dynamics of a semiconductor laser subjected external optical is applied to all-optical clock division. By properly adjusting the injection conditions, the divide-by-two clock division and the divide-by-three clock division are achieved base on the period-one oscillation. The divide-by-two clock division and divide-by-three clock division can be implemented within different input signal frequency ranges: from 11.0 GHz to 20.0 GHz and from 16.5 GHz to 20.0 GHz, respectively, by adjusting the average power of the injection optical pulses. In addition, our experiment shows that the phase noise of the divided clock signals is below -100 dBc/Hz. The division process can be controlled by the power and the wavelength detuning of the injected optical pulses. A large locking range of 1.0GHz is measured in second clock division, and 1.8GHz is measured in third clock division.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shengxiao Niu
AU  - Mingjiang Zhang
AU  - Shuihui Shi
AU  - Chao Chen
PY  - 2014/05
DA  - 2014/05
TI  - All-Optical Clock Division Using Period-one Oscillation of Optically Injected Semiconductor Laser
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics, Engineering, Management and Computer Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 207
EP  - 211
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/lemcs-14.2014.48
DO  - 10.2991/lemcs-14.2014.48
ID  - Niu2014/05
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