Recent progress in optical time-division-multiplexed (TDM) transmission technologies is
reviewed including optical short pulse generation, time-division multiplexing/demultiplexing …

Recent progress toward multiterabit/s optical transmission systems employing all-optical
ultrafast signal-processing technologies is described. Focus is placed on optical time …

Clock recovery is a fundamental operation in digital telecommunications systems, where the
receiver synchronizes itself to the transmitter timing. In optical clock recovery, this operation …

This review discusses the physical mechanisms of absorptive and dispersive nonlinearity in
amplifiers resulting from interband and intraband electron transitions, with an assessment of …

Ultrafast all-optical signal processing techniques are expected to play a major role in future
ultrafast single-carrier soliton systems, because they remove the electronics bottleneck. In …

A novel all-optical timing-recovery scheme that uses an optical tank circuit is presented. An
optical clock synchronized to an incoming data stream is generated by extracting line …

A novel all-optical clock recovery scheme in which an optical data stream is used to mode-
lock a fibre laser at (or at integer multiple of) the line rate is experimentally demonstrated. A …

A new phase lock loop (PLL) is proposed and demonstrated for clock recovery from an
ultrahigh-speed time-division multiplexed (TDM) optical signal. A traveling-wave laser-diode …

The suitability of self-pulsating multi-section DFB lasers for high speed signal processing is
shown. First, the locking behaviour to an injected 17.6 GHz signal with sinusoidal …

All-optical clock extraction from 5 Gb/s RZ data is demonstrated using a two-contact
InGaAsP semiconductor self-pulsating laser diode. The saturable absorber region of the …