High speed all-optical PRBS generation based on quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers.

A scheme to generate return-to-zero on-off keying (RZ-OOK) high speed all-optical pseudo random bit sequence (PRBS) based on quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers (QD SOA) has been studied. By analyzing the performance of the core functional unit of this system, which is composed of QD SOA-based logic XOR and AND gates, as well as considering the saturation effect of the QD device and noise level of the system, we demonstrated the system's capability of producing stable high speed optical PRBS signals. Results show that the performance of the system depends on a number of parameters, including relaxation lifetime from QD excited state to ground state, injected current density, bit repetition rate, signal pulse width and single pulse energy. For devices with relaxation time approximately 1.0 ps, injected current density >1.8 kA/cm(2), single pulse energy <1.0 pJ with pulse width around 1.0 ps, the system is capable of PRBS generation at speeds of approximately 250 Gb/s.

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