83 fJ/bit energy-to-data ratio of 850-nm VCSEL at 17 Gb/s

Author

Moser, P. ; Hofmann, W. ; Wolf, P. ; Fiol, G. ; Lott, J.A. ; Ledentsov, N.N. ; Bimberg, D.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Solid State Phys. & Center of Nanophotonics, Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

18-22 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Extremely energy efficient high-speed 850-nm vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL) for optical interconnects are presented. Error-free performance at 17 Gb/s and 25 Gb/s via a 100 m multi-mode fiber link is demonstrated at record-high dissipation-power-efficiencies of 69 fJ/bit and 99 fJ/bit. This corresponds to an energy-to-data ratio of 83/117 fJ/bit accounting for the total power consumed. These are the most power-efficient high-speed light-sources reported to date.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; surface emitting lasers; VCSEL; bit rate 17 Gbit/s; bit rate 25 Gbit/s; energy-to-data ratio; error-free performance; extremely energy efficient; high-speed vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers; multimode fiber link; optical interconnects; record-high dissipation-power-efficiencies; size 850 nm; Data communication; Energy efficiency; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Optical interconnections; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on

Conference_Location

Geneva

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1918-9

Type

conf

Filename

6065831