Title :
Bifunctional 1550-nm tunable device and its transmission characteristics
Author :
Weijian Yang ; Yi Rao ; Chase, Chris ; Gerke, Stephen Adair ; Li Zhu ; Huang, Meng ; Chang-Hasnain, Connie J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
A continuously tunable, high-speed bifunctional device is demonstrated as tunable resonant cavity detector and VCSEL by simply changing bias polarity. Tunable receiver with 33.5-nm wavelength range is obtained. A VCSEL-VCSEL bidirectional communication link is demonstrated.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; optical communication; optical receivers; wavelength division multiplexing; VCSEL-VCSEL bidirectional communication link; bias polarity; high-speed bifunctional tunable device; transmission characteristics; tunable receiver; tunable resonant cavity detector; wavelength 33.5 nm; wavelength range; wavelength-division-multiplexed optical communication systems; Bit error rate; Detectors; Gratings; Optical transmitters; Receivers; Tuning; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.W4C.4
