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Energy-efficient vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for "green" data and computer communication
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Paper Abstract

Record energy-efficient oxide-confined 850-nm single mode and quasi-single mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for optical interconnects are presented. Error-free performance at 17 Gb/s is achieved with record-low dissipated power of only 69 fJ/bit. The total energy consumption is only 93 fJ/bit. Transmission lengths up to 1 km of multimode optical fiber were achieved. Our commercial quasi-single mode devices achieve error-free operation at 25 Gb/s across up to 303 m of multimode fiber. To date our VCSELs are the most energy-efficient directly modulated light-sources at any wavelength for data transmission across all distances up to 1 km of multimode optical fiber.

Paper Details

Date Published: 7 February 2012
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 8276, Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers XVI, 82760J (7 February 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.906856
Show Author Affiliations
Philip Moser, Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany)
James A. Lott, Vertically Integrated Systems GmbH (Germany)
Philip Wolf, Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany)
Gunter Larisch, Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany)
Alexey Payusov, Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany)
St. Petersburg Academic Univ. (Russian Federation)
Gerrit Fiol, Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany)
Nikolay N. Ledentsov, Vertically Integrated Systems GmbH (Germany)
Werner Hofmann, Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany)
Dieter Bimberg, Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany)
King Abdulaziz Univ. (Saudi Arabia)


Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8276:
Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers XVI
Chun Lei; Kent D. Choquette, Editor(s)

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