160 Gbit/s clock recovery using electroabsorptionmodulator-basedphase-locked loop

Abstract

Clock recovery from a 160 Gbit/s optical time-division-multiplexed data stream is experimentally demonstrated using an electroabsorption modulator-based phase-locked loop. The recovered clock signal exhibits excellent stability, with an RMS timing jitter of < 230 fs, a dynamic range of 25 dB, and a locking range of 16 MHz.