Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR, China
Abstract:
All optical bit clock recovery is one of the key technologies for all optical 3R recovery. In this paper, a simple method applying the combination of Fabry–Perot (F–P) filter and semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) for clock recovery is proposed. The effect of the F–P filter finesse on the clock recovery and the reduction in the amplitude fluctuation of the clock pulse by the SOA are discussed theoretically. With this technology 10 Gbit/s clock recovery with equal amplitude and wavelength transparency was realized experimentally.