Energy-efficient 1.3 μm short-cavity VCSELs for 30 Gb/s error-free optical links

Author

Müller, Michael ; Wolf, Philip ; Gründl, Tobias ; Grasse, Christian ; Rosskopf, Jürgen ; Hofmann, Werner ; Bimberg, Dieter ; Amann, Markus-Christian

Author_Institution

Walter Schottky Inst., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Garching, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

7-10 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present the first error-free data-transmission at 30 Gb/s over up to 10 km of fiber using energy-efficient 1.3 μm short-cavity VCSELs with low threshold current of 500 μA and high conversion efficiencies up to 30%. A record-low energy-to-data-distance ratio of 27 fJ/(bit·km) is achieved for such a VCSEL-link.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical links; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; VCSEL-link; bit rate 30 Gbit/s; conversion efficiency; current 500 muA; energy-efficient short-cavity VCSEL; error-free data-transmission; error-free optical links; optical fiber; record-low energy-to-data-distance ratio; threshold current; wavelength 1.3 mum; Adaptive optics; Energy efficiency; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC), 2012 23rd IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

0899-9406

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0828-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISLC.2012.6348316

Filename

6348316