Signal generation and processing at 100 Gb/s based on optical time division multiplexing

Abstract

In this paper, we review our recent works in 100 Gb/s signal generation and processing. A high-speed 100 Gb/s system with on-off keying (OOK) modulation format is implemented by using optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) method. As modifications of this system, simultaneous multicolor optical signal generation and 100 Gb/s return-to-zero (RZ)-to-non-return-to-zero (NRZ) format conversion are presented. We also demonstrate basic all-optical signal processing functions of 100 GHz clock recovery and 100 Gb/s all-optical 2R generation based on semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs).

Keywords

optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) / 2R regeneration / clock recovery / semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61077055 and 61275032), Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (No. 2011CB301703), and Foundation for the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Beijing (No. YB20091000301).

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