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The spontaneous clock division of an optical pulse train at 2.5 GHz is reported. This divide by two function is achieved using a semiconductor optical amplifier as the nonlinear element in a fibre loop mirror, where the switching pulses are obtained by feeding back the reflected loop output.
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Manning et al. (1996) studied this question.
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