PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY OF AN ALL-OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY FIGURE 8LASER

A novel geometry for all-optical clock recovery using a semiconductor amplifier yields a strong locking mechanism in a short cavity. The rec overed clock has a large locking bandwidth, low timing jitter, and fas t lock-up time at a 2.5 GHz rate. Preliminary results at a 9 GHz rate also indicate a high quality recovered clock.