Weexperimentallydemonstrateall-opticalclockrecoveryfor100Gb/sreturn-to-zeroon–offkeyingsignalsbasedonamonolithicdual-modedistributedBraggreflector(DBR)laser,whichcanrealizebothmodespacingandwavelengthtuning.Byusingacoherentinjectionlockingscheme,a100GHzopticalclockcanberecoveredwithatimingjitterof530fs,whichisderivedbyanopticalsamplingoscilloscopefromboththephasenoiseandthepowerfluctuation.Furthermore,fordegradedinjectionsignalswithanopticalsignal-to-noiseratioaslowas4.1dBanda25kmlongdistancetransmission,good-qualityopticalclocksareallsuccessfullyrecovered.
