Abstract
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).
© 2009 IEEE
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