TY - JOUR
T1 - All-optical seed pulse extraction for packet synchronization based on self-induced effects in a vertical-cavity semiconductor gate
AU - Porzi, C.
AU - Calabretta, N.
AU - Guina, M.
PY - 2006/7/15
Y1 - 2006/7/15
N2 - Self-induced effects in a passive polarization-independent vertical-cavity semiconductor gate are investigated numerically and experimentally. We demonstrate all-optical seed-pulse extraction for synchronization of differential phase-shift keying and ON-OFF keying packets at 10 Gb/s. Our results provide evidence that vertical-cavity gates, exploiting saturable absorption in semiconductor quantum-wells, exhibit attractive performances in terms of efficiency, power consumption, and polarization independency.
AB - Self-induced effects in a passive polarization-independent vertical-cavity semiconductor gate are investigated numerically and experimentally. We demonstrate all-optical seed-pulse extraction for synchronization of differential phase-shift keying and ON-OFF keying packets at 10 Gb/s. Our results provide evidence that vertical-cavity gates, exploiting saturable absorption in semiconductor quantum-wells, exhibit attractive performances in terms of efficiency, power consumption, and polarization independency.
KW - Optical signal processing
KW - Packet self-synchronization
KW - Packet switching
KW - Quantum-well devices
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33745619796&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/LPT.2006.877590
DO - 10.1109/LPT.2006.877590
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33745619796
SN - 1041-1135
VL - 18
SP - 1509
EP - 1511
JO - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
JF - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
IS - 14
ER -