Clock recovery circuit for optical packets

We demonstrate an all-optical clock recovery circuit for operation with short data packets of 10-Gb/s rate. The circuit uses a Fabry-Perot etalon and a nonlinear UNI gate and is capable of acquiring the clock signal within a few bits.

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