High-speed tunable and fixed-wavelength VCSELs for short-reach optical links and interconnects
Paper i proceeding, 2012

This paper presents a review of recent work on high speed tunable and fixed wavelength vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) at Chalmers University of Technology. All VCSELs are GaAs-based, employ an oxide aperture for current and/or optical confinement, and emit around 850 nm. With proper active region and cavity designs, and techniques for reducing capacitance and thermal impedance, our fixed wavelength VCSELs have reached a modulation bandwidth of 23 GHz, which has enabled error-free 40 Gbps back-to-back transmission and 35 Gbps transmission over 100 m of multimode fiber. A MEMS-technology for wafer scale integration of tunable high speed VCSELs has also been developed. A tuning range of 24 nm and a modulation bandwidth of 6 GHz have been achieved, enabling error-free back-to-back transmission at 5 Gbps.

vertical cavity surface emitting laser

wavelength tuning

photon lifetime

surface-emitting lasers

modulation

performance

850-nm vcsels

MEMS

VCSEL

high speed

impact

Författare

Anders Larsson

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Johan Gustavsson

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Åsa Haglund

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Benjamin Kögel

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Jörgen Bengtsson

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Petter Westbergh

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Erik Haglund

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

P. P. Baveja

University of Rochester

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

0277786X (ISSN) 1996756X (eISSN)

Vol. 8276 Article Number: 82760H- 82760H
978-0-81948-919-7 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)

Fysik

DOI

10.1117/12.910261

ISBN

978-0-81948-919-7

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