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Absbact An ell Optical Phase-Locked Loop (OPLL) composed by an Optical Voltage-Controlled Oscillator
(OVCO), and an ultra-fast Optical Phase-Comparator (OPC) is presented. 70 GHz pre-scaled clock extraction
from a 40 GHz multiplexed signal is demonstrated.
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tuning range of the OVCO (measured to be 350 Wz),
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Fig. 4 (a) 40 GHz input signal, (b) 10 GHz extracted clock,
and (c) both signal and dock measured using the same
higger.
offm frcqnrncy (ImZ)
Note that an elecbic clock output is also available
Fig. 5 Nonaiized electrical power spedra in tlm locked
from the feedback line in the OVCO. When the loop is (solid line) and unlocked (dashed line) conditions.
locked. BPD gives a DC voltage, whose magnitude is
proportional to phase mismatch between the two Conclusions
pulse trains. In Fig. 3 are reported (a) the SOA output We recovered a 10 GUz pre-scaled dock from a 40
s p e d and (b) the BPD output when the loop is GHz multiplexed signal, in an all optical PLL scheme.
open (i.e. the error signal is disconnected from the As a nwelty we exploited a voltage controlled pulse
OVCO), for a frequency ofket of about 12 KHz generator, based on a RMLFL, which always
between the clock and baseline signal rate. produces high quality pulses, as lhe clock generator,
improving loop acquisition and hold in range with
Experiment resutts and dlscusslon resped to other similar schemes. Data repetition rate
The 40 GHz signal is obtained, through a 4x1 optical is only limited by the multiplexing fador in the
multiplexer, from an harmonic mode-locked fiber experiment, since the ultra-fast nonlinear pmcess.
laser, whose driving RF source is set close to 10 responsible for optical phase detection. is supposed
GHz. Signal pulse central wavelength is 1566 nm. to allow dock synchronization with data over
while clock pulses are at 1557.7 nm. In this way, the hundreds of Gbtls. Operation with modulated data
optical detuning between the two signals is much should follow directly. The error signal is indeed
above the carrier density modulation wt-off frequency expected to be independent from data paltem, being
(-100 GHz) in the SOA, and FWM light generation is the loop filter bandwidth much more smaller than
only due to non-linear gain effect, involving basically typical data repetition rates.
two physical mechanisms, whose response times are
few tens and hundreds of fs, respectively 14). Hence. References
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the same trigger when the loop is closed. Signal and 4 J. Zhou el al., IEEE Photn. Techn. Lett., vol 6 (i994). pp
clock pulsewidth (full width half maximum) is 6 ps and 5C-52
8 ps. respectively, and the corresponding average 5 F. M. Gardner. Phase Lock Techniques. (1979). John
powers at the SOA input are as low as -1.5 dBm and Wiiey and Sons
2 dBm. respectively. The hold-in range is set by the
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